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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Aug 19.
Published in final edited form as: Neuroimaging Clin N Am. 2007 Nov;17(4):523–ix. doi: 10.1016/j.nic.2007.07.003

Table 1.

Published Functional Imaging Studies in PTSD-Methods

Authors Study Population Sample Size Control Group Sample Size Imaging Methods Active Condition Control

Rauch 96 Mixed PTSD 8 none 0 PET O-15 Combat scripts neutral scripts
Semple 96 Combat PTSD+SA 6 Healthy subjects 6 PET FDG Continuous Performance T Rest
Bremner 97 Combat-related PTSD 10 Healthy subjects 10 PET FDG Yohimbine Placebo
Shin 97 Combat-related PTSD 7 Combat veterans without PTSD 7 PET O-15 Trauma Imagery/Perceptio Neg/Neutral Image/Percep
Bremner 99a Combat-related PTSD 10 Combat veterans without PTSD 10 PET O-15 Combat slides/sounds Neutral slides/sounds
Bremner 99b Women with Abuse-related PTSD 10 Abused Women without PTSD 12 PET O-15 Abuse scripts neutral scripts
Shin 99 Women with Abuse-related PTSD 8 Abused Women without PTSD 8 PET O-15 Abuse scripts neutral scripts
Liberzon 99 Combat-related PTSD 14 Healthy subjects/combat controls 14/11 SPECT HMP Combat Sounds White Noise
Zubieta 99 Combat-related PTSD 12 Combat veterans without PTSD, Healthy Subj 11/12 SPECT HMP Combat Sounds White Noise
Rauch 00 Combat-related PTSD 8 Combat veterans without PTSD 8 fMRI Masked Fearful Faces Masked Happy Faces
Semple 00 Combat PTSD+SA 6 Healthy subjects 7 PET O-15 bu Continuous Performance T Rest
Shin 01 Combat-related PTSD 8 Combat veterans without PTSD 8 fMRI Counting Stroop-combat Stroop General Negative
Lanius 01 Mixed Civilian (SA or MVA) 9 Traumatized non-PTSD 9 fMRI Traumatic Scripts Resting state
Pissiota 02 Combat PTSD 7 none 0 PET Traumatic sounds neutral sounds
Lanius 03 Mixed Civilian (SA or MVA) 10 Traumatized non-PTSD 10 fMRI sad, anxious, trauma scrip Resting state
Bremner 03 Women with Abuse-related PTSD 10 Healthy Women 11 PET O-15 Trauma related word recal shallow encoding
Bremner 03b Women with Abuse-related PTSD 10 Women with abuse without PTSD 12 PET O-15 Memory task shallow encoding
Clark 03 Civilian PTSD 10 Healthy subjects 10 PET O-15 Working memory task Fixed target
Bonne 03 Civilian PTSD 11 trauma controls/healthy controls 17/11 SPECT HMP Resting state
Bremner 05 Women with Abuse-related PTSD 8 Healthy subjects 11 PET O-15 Fear conditioning Unpaired CS-US
Bremner 04 Women with Abuse-related PTSD 12 Women with abuse without PTSD 9 PET O-15 Emotional Stroop Neutral Stroop
Shin 04 Vietnam Combat related PTSD 17 Vietnam veterans without PTSD 19 PET O-15 Traumatic Scripts neutral scripts
Shin 04b Firefighters with PTSD 8 Firefighters without PTSD 8 PET O-15 Memory task shallow encoding
Lindauer 04 Policemen with PTSD 15 Policemen without PTSD 15 SPECT HMP Traumatic Scripts neutral scripts
Yang 04 Children - Earthquake related PTS 5 Children - Earthquake - nonPTSD 6 fMRI Earthquake pictures/image Neutral pictures/imagery
Shin 05 Firefighters+VN Combat with PTS 13 Trauma exposed without PTSD 13 fMRI Overt fearful faces neutral overt faces
Armony 05 Acute PTSD - MVA 13 None 0 fMRI Masked Fearful Faces Masked Happy Faces
Sakamoto 05 Mixed civilian PTSD 16 Healthy subjects 16 fMRI Masked traumatic images masked neutral images
Protopopescu 05 Sexual/physical abuse PTSD 11 Healthy subjects 21 fMRI Traumatic word recall neutral word recall
Bryant 05 Civilian PTSD 14 Healthy Controls 14 fMRI Oddball Working Memory
Britton 05 Combat PTSD 16 Combat controls/Healthy controls 15/14 PET O-15 traumatic scripts neutral scripts
Chung 06 Civilian PTSD 23 Healthy Controls 46 SPECT HMP Resting state None
Phan 06 Vietnam Combat related PTSD 16 Combat controls/healthy subjects 15/15 PET Negative pictures control pictures
Astur 06 Civilian PTSD 12 Healthy Controls 12 fMRI virtual water maze visual condition