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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Biol Psychiatry Cogn Neurosci Neuroimaging. 2019 Aug 28;5(1):23–34. doi: 10.1016/j.bpsc.2019.08.006

Table 1.

15 MRI studies included in region-of-interest meta-analysis comparing participants with PTSD to participants without PTSD.

Study Participants with PTSD (N) Comparison Participants without PTSD (N) Comparison Participants without Trauma Exposure (N) Comparison Participants with Trauma Exposure (N) Diagnosti c Criteria Average Agea Method for ROI segmentation
Ahmed et al. (15) 21 32 - 32 DSM-IV 15.3 Automatedc
Carrion et al. (9)b 24 24 24 - DSM-IV 11.0 Manual
Carrion et al. (68)b 24 24 24 - DSM-IV 11.0 Manual
De Bellis et al. (10)b 44 61 61 - DSM-III-R 12.1 Manual
De Bellis et al. (20) 9 9 9 - DSM-IV 10.5 Manual
De Bellis et al. (11)b 28 66 66 - DSM-IV 11.5 Manual
De Bellis et al. (70)b 43 61 61 - DSM-IV 12.1 Manual
De Bellis et al. (12)b 61 122 122 - DSM-IV 11.7 Manual
De Bellis et al. (71)b 58 98 98 - DSM-IV 12.0 Manual
De Bellis et al. (14) 38 59 59 35 DSM-IV 10.5 Manual
Automatedc +
Morey et al. (16) 31 57 57 32 DSM-IV 10.4 Manual
Mutluer et al. (74) 23 21 21 - DSM-IV 15.4 Manual
Postel et al. (75) 15 24 24 - DSM-IV 16.0 Manual
Weems et al. (79)b 24 24 24 - DSM-IV 11.0 Manual
Weems et al. (42)b 28 26 26 - DSM-IV 13.8 Automatedc
a

Average age of all participants in sample (PTSD and comparison groups). None of the comparison participants listed above had a PTSD diagnosis at the time of the study

b

Despite overlapping samples present in overall database, none of the studies included in the individual ROI meta-analyses reported here contained overlapping samples

c

Automated method used was FreeSurfer image analysis suite.

“-” = not stated in the study.