Anterior hippocampal volume predicts affect-focused psychotherapy outcome.

CONCLUSIONS: This is the first study to explore associations between hippocampal volume sub-regions and treatment outcome in PTSD and PD. Convergent results suggest that affect-focused treatment may influence the clinical outcome through the 'limbic' AH, whereas exposure-based treatments do not. These preliminary, theory-congruent, therapeutic findings require replication in a larger clinical trial.
PMID: 30773148 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Psychological Medicine - February 18, 2019 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Suarez-Jimenez B, Zhu X, Lazarov A, Mann JJ, Schneier F, Gerber A, Barber JP, Chambless DL, Neria Y, Milrod B, Markowitz JC Tags: Psychol Med Source Type: research