Acute White Matter Integrity Post-trauma and Prospective Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Symptoms

Conclusions: Results demonstrate that in a traumatically injured sample with predominantly subclinical PTSD symptoms at T2, acute white matter integrity after trauma is not robustly related to the development of chronic PTSD symptoms. These findings suggest the timing of evaluating white matter integrity and PTSD is important as white matter differences may not be apparent in the acute period after injury.
Source: Frontiers in Human Neuroscience - Category: Neuroscience Source Type: research