Post-traumatic stress disorder: clinical and translational neuroscience from cells to circuits

KJ Ressler, S Berretta, VY Bolshakov… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a maladaptive and debilitating psychiatric disorder,
characterized by re-experiencing, avoidance, negative emotions and thoughts, and …

Neural contributors to trauma resilience: a review of longitudinal neuroimaging studies

AR Roeckner, KI Oliver, LAM Lebois… - Translational …, 2021 - nature.com
Resilience in the face of major life stressors is changeable over time and with experience.
Accordingly, differing sets of neurobiological factors may contribute to an adaptive stress …

PTSD-related neuroimaging abnormalities in brain function, structure, and biochemistry

NG Harnett, AM Goodman, DC Knight - Experimental neurology, 2020 - Elsevier
Although approximately 90% of the US population will experience a traumatic event within
their lifetime, only a fraction of those traumatized individuals will develop posttraumatic …

Structural inequities contribute to racial/ethnic differences in neurophysiological tone, but not threat reactivity, after trauma exposure

NG Harnett, N Fani, S Carter, LD Sanchez… - Molecular …, 2023 - nature.com
Considerable racial/ethnic disparities persist in exposure to life stressors and
socioeconomic resources that can directly affect threat neurocircuitry, particularly the …

Brain-based biotypes of psychiatric vulnerability in the acute aftermath of trauma

JS Stevens, NG Harnett, LAM Lebois… - American journal of …, 2021 - Am Psychiatric Assoc
Objective: Major negative life events, such as trauma exposure, can play a key role in
igniting or exacerbating psychopathology. However, few disorders are diagnosed with …

Prognostic neuroimaging biomarkers of trauma-related psychopathology: resting-state fMRI shortly after trauma predicts future PTSD and depression symptoms in the …

NG Harnett, SJH van Rooij, TD Ely… - …, 2021 - nature.com
Neurobiological markers of future susceptibility to posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) may
facilitate identification of vulnerable individuals in the early aftermath of trauma. Variability in …

Defining the r factor for post-trauma resilience and its neural predictors

SJH van Rooij, JL Santos, CA Hinojosa, TD Ely… - Nature Mental …, 2024 - nature.com
Although resilience is a dynamic process of recovery after trauma, in most studies it is
conceptualized as the absence of specific psychopathology following trauma. Here, using …

Increased activation of the fear neurocircuitry in children exposed to violence

SJH van Rooij, RD Smith, AF Stenson… - Depression and …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Most studies investigating the effect of childhood trauma on the brain are retrospective and
mainly focus on maltreatment, whereas different types of trauma exposure such as growing …

Impaired inhibition as an intermediate phenotype for PTSD risk and treatment response

SJH van Rooij, T Jovanovic - Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Inhibition of fear involves learning and then appropriately responding to safety signals, and
has been shown to be impaired in PTSD patients. Response inhibition refers to cognitive …

[HTML][HTML] Amygdala functional connectivity in the acute aftermath of trauma prospectively predicts severity of posttraumatic stress symptoms

EL Belleau, LE Ehret, JL Hanson, KJ Brasel… - Neurobiology of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Understanding neural mechanisms that confer risk for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
is critical for earlier intervention, yet longitudinal work has been sparse. The amygdala is …