Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging
Volume 163, Issue 2 , Pages 156-170 , 15 July 2008

Abnormal recruitment of working memory updating networks during maintenance of trauma-neutral information in post-traumatic stress disorder

  • Kathryn A. Moores

      Affiliations

    • Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, School of Psychology, Flinders University, Adelaide, SA, Australia
    • ,
  • C. Richard Clark

      Affiliations

    • Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, School of Psychology, Flinders University, Adelaide, SA, Australia
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. School of Psychology, Flinders University, G.P.O. Box 2100, Adelaide, SA, 5001 Australia. Tel.: +61 8 8201 2425; fax: +61 8 8201 3877.
    • ,
  • Alexander C. McFarlane

      Affiliations

    • The Centre of Military and Veterans' Health and Department of Psychiatry, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia
    • ,
  • Greg C. Brown

      Affiliations

    • MRI Suite, Department of Radiology, Royal Adelaide Hospital, Adelaide, SA, Australia
    • ,
  • Aina Puce

      Affiliations

    • Center for Advanced Imaging, Departments of Radiology, Neurobiology & Anatomy, West Virginia University School of Medicine, Morgantown, WV, USA
    • ,
  • D. James Taylor

      Affiliations

    • MRI Suite, Department of Radiology, Royal Adelaide Hospital, Adelaide, SA, Australia

Received 28 July 2006 ,Revised 23 May 2007 ,Accepted 26 August 2007.

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Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging
Volume 163, Issue 2 , Pages 156-170 , 15 July 2008

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