Emotional face processing in adolescents with childhood sexual abuse-related posttraumatic stress disorder, internalizing disorders and healthy controls

About one in ten children worldwide experience Childhood Sexual Abuse (CSA; Stoltenborgh et al., 2011), with all too often long lasting and devastating consequences. These include a variety of psychiatric disorders related to emotion dysregulation, that usually last into adulthood (Anda et al., 2006; Fergusson et al., 2013). In order to develop early interventions and personalize treatment to reduce the impact of CSA, better insight in the neural sequelae of CSA, especially in adolescence, is warranted.

Source: Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging - April 17, 2017 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Marie-Jos é van Hoof, Bianca G. van den Bulk, Serge A.R.B. Rombouts, Mirjam A.W. Rinne-Albers, Nic J.A. van der Wee, Marinus H. van IJzendoorn, Robert R.J.M. Vermeiren Source Type: research