| Literature DB >> 8797239 |
W E Semple1, P F Goyer, R McCormick, B Compton-Toth, E Morris, B Donovan, G Muswick, D Nelson, M L Garnett, J Sharkoff, G Leisure, F Miraldi, S C Schulz.
Abstract
Performance on an attentional task was assessed in posttraumatic stress disorder patients with substance abuse histories (PTSD-SA). Positron emission tomography (PET) was used to measure concurrent regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF). Eight male PTSD-SA patients and eight normal subjects each received three serial PET scans with 15O-labeled water under the following conditions: (1) resting, (2) auditory continuous performance task (ACPT1), and (3) repeat auditory task (ACPT2). PTSD-SA patients made more errors of commission on the ACPT than normal subjects. Examination of right frontal and parietal cortex ACPT task substrates revealed decreased parietal blood flow in PTSD-SA, which may represent a pathophysiology for poor attentional task performance in PTSD-SA. Attentional problems may underlie other symptomatology in PTSD.Entities:
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Year: 1996 PMID: 8797239 DOI: 10.1016/0925-4927(96)02735-7
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Psychiatry Res ISSN: 0165-1781 Impact factor: 3.222