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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Sep 19.
Published in final edited form as: Curr Psychiatry Rep. 2017 Sep 19;19(11):81. doi: 10.1007/s11920-017-0840-4

Table 1.

Summary of neuroimaging findings in PTSD

Intrinsic Fc Functional Activity Between-network Fc WM GM
DMN ↓ vmPFC-hippocampus [20], vmPFC-posterior hippocampus [43], PCC-posterior hippocampus [43], PCC-hippocampus [21], PCC-vmPFC [21], overall [23], PCC-vmPFC-MTL [24] ↓ vmPFC, PCC [57, 4]

↓↑ hippocampus [5, 6]

↑ anterior hippocampus [6]
↑ Increased insula-hippocampus [20], amygdala-vmPFC [61] ↓ FA in cingulum (vmPFC-PCC) [2628]

↓ FA in vmPFC-hippocampus [29, 30]

↓ vmPFC [25]
↓ vmPFC [31], PCC [32], MTL [3234], hippocampus [35]

↓ anterior hippocampus [38, 39]
CEN ↓ premotor cortex-dlPFC, premotor cortex- parietal cortex/middle frontal gyrus [52], precuneus-CEN [24] ↓ dlPFC [4, 6]

↑ precuneus [6]
↑ SN-CEN coupling [62] ↑ FA in dlPFC [59] ↑↓ dlPFC [5457]
SN ↑ amygdala-insula [60, 20], amygdala-dACC [61]

↓ dACC-SN [24]
↑ amygdala [46], dACC [6], anterior insula [4, 6, 7] ↓ FA in insula, cingulum [2527] ↓↑ amygdala [6567]

↓ dACC [68, 14, 31], insula [31, 57, 69]

Abbreviations — Fc: Functional Connectivity; WM: White Matter; GM: Gray Matter; DMN: Default Mode Network; CEN: Central Executive Network; SN: Salience Network; vmPFC: Ventral Prefrontal Cortex; PCC: Posterior Cingulate Cortex; MTL: Medial Temporal Lobe; FA: Fractional Anisotropy; dlPFC: Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex; dACC: Dorsal Anterior Cingulate Cortex.