Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging
Volume 162, Issue 3 , Pages 256-261 , 15 April 2008

Corpus callosum in maltreated children with posttraumatic stress disorder: A diffusion tensor imaging study

  • Andrea P. Jackowski

      Affiliations

    • Child Study Center, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, United States
    • LiNC, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
    • ,
  • Heather Douglas-Palumberi

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, United States
    • ,
  • Marcel Jackowski

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Mathematics and Statistics, University of São Paulo, CEP 05508-090, São Paulo, Brazil
    • ,
  • Lawrence Win

      Affiliations

    • Child Study Center, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, United States
    • ,
  • Robert T. Schultz

      Affiliations

    • Child Study Center, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, United States
    • ,
  • Lawrence W. Staib

      Affiliations

    • Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, United States
    • ,
  • John H. Krystal

      Affiliations

    • Child Study Center, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, United States
    • ,
  • Joan Kaufman

      Affiliations

    • Child Study Center, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, United States
    • Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, United States
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +1 203 764 9949;fax: +1 203 7649990.

Received 8 August 2007 ,Accepted 9 August 2007.

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PII: S0925-4927(07)00156-4

doi: 10.1016/j.pscychresns.2007.08.006

Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging
Volume 162, Issue 3 , Pages 256-261 , 15 April 2008

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