Disrupted brain network topology in pediatric posttraumatic stress disorder: A resting-state fMRI study

• Published in: Human brain mapping Vol. 36; no. 9; pp. 3677 - 3686
• Main Authors: Suo, Xueling, Lei, Du, Li, Kaiming, Chen, Fuqin, Li, Fei, Li, Lei, Huang, Xiaoqi, Lui, Su, Li, Lingjiang, Kemp, Graham J., Gong, Qiyong
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.09.2015; John Wiley & Sons, Inc; John Wiley and Sons Inc
• Subjects: Adolescent; Atlases as Topic; Brain - physiopathology; Child; Cluster Analysis; Connectome - methods; Earthquakes; Female; functional connectome; graph theory; Humans; Magnetic Resonance Imaging - methods; Male; Neural Pathways - physiopathology; Pattern Recognition, Automated - methods; pediatric PTSD; r-fMRI; Rest; small-worldness; Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic - etiology; Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic - physiopathology; small-worldness; pediatric PTSD; r-fMRI; graph theory; functional connectome

Children exposed to natural disasters are vulnerable to the development of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Recent studies of other neuropsychiatric disorders have used graph‐based theoretical analysis to investigate the topological properties of the functional brain connectome. However, little...