In Studies Using FMRI, How Did Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

question 35

Multiple Choice

In studies using fMRI, how did post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) participants who report primarily dissociative (numbing-type) responses to listening to scripts about their traumas compare to PTSD participants who experienced primarily hyperarousal patterns to trauma scripts?

• A)They had more atrophied parts of the brain.
• B)They had less electrical activity in the limbic system.
• C)They had slower and more irregular delta waves.
• D)They had very different patterns of brain activation.

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