Diffusion tensor imaging in anxiety disorders

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dc.contributor.authorAyling E.
dc.contributor.authorAghajani M.
dc.contributor.authorFouche J.-P.
dc.contributor.authorVan Der Wee N.
dc.date.accessioned2012-06-06T07:59:58Z
dc.date.available2012-06-06T07:59:58Z
dc.date.issued2012
dc.description.abstractDiffusion tensor imaging (DTI) can be used to examine the structural integrity of regional white matter and to map white matter tracts. DTI studies have been performed in several psychiatric disorders, especially in those for which a developmental or a neuropsychiatric component was postulated. Thus far, the use of DTI has been very limited in panic disorder, social anxiety disorder, and generalized anxiety disorder, and somewhat more extensive in post-traumatic stress disorder and obsessive-compulsive disorder. In most anxiety disorders, the results of DTI studies are in line with other structural and functional MRI findings and can be interpreted within the frameworks of existing models for the neurocircuitry of the various disorders. DTI findings could further enrich neurobiological models for anxiety disorders, although replication is often warranted, and studies in pediatric populations are lagging behind remarkably. © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2012.
dc.identifier.citationCurrent Psychiatry Reports
dc.identifier.citation14
dc.identifier.citation3
dc.identifier.citation197
dc.identifier.citation202
dc.identifier.issn15233812
dc.identifier.otherdoi:10.1007/s11920-012-0273-z
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/21284
dc.subjectAnxiety disorders
dc.subjectDiffusion tensor imaging
dc.subjectDTI
dc.subjectGeneralized anxiety disorder
dc.subjectInternalizing disorders
dc.subjectNeurocircuitry
dc.subjectObsessive-compulsive disorder
dc.subjectPanic disorder
dc.subjectPost-traumatic stress disorder
dc.subjectSocial anxiety disorder
dc.subjectTrait anxiety
dc.titleDiffusion tensor imaging in anxiety disorders
dc.typeReview
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