Post-traumatic stress disorder: a right temporal lobe syndrome?

@article{Engdahl2010PosttraumaticSD,
  title={Post-traumatic stress disorder: a right temporal lobe syndrome?},
  author={Brian Engdahl and Arthur C. Leuthold and Heng-Ru May Tan and Scott M. Lewis and Ann Marie Winskowski and Thomas N. Dikel and Angeliki Georgopoulos},
  journal={Journal of Neural Engineering},
  year={2010},
  volume={7},
  pages={066005}
}
In a recent paper (Georgopoulos et al 2010 J. Neural Eng. 7 016011) we reported on the power of the magnetoencephalography (MEG)-based synchronous neural interactions (SNI) test to differentiate post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) subjects from healthy control subjects and to classify them with a high degree of accuracy. Here we show that the main differences in cortical communication circuitry between these two groups lie in the miscommunication of temporal and parietal and/or parieto… 
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