Trial reportCognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience2016
Attention training improves aberrant neural dynamics during working memory processing in veterans with PTSD.
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- Attention training modulates resting-state neurophysiological abnormalities in posttraumatic stress disorder.Psychiatry research. Neuroimaging · 2018Trial
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- Interplay between preclinical indices of obesity and neural signatures of fluid intelligence in youth.Communications biology · 2024Article
- Glycemic control level alters working memory neural dynamics in adults with type 2 diabetes.Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) · 2023Article
- Posttraumatic stress, visual working memory, and visual imagery in military personnel.Current psychology (New Brunswick, N.J.) · 2023Article
- Male and female impairments in odor span are observed in a rat model of PTSD.Learning & memory (Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.) · 2023Article
- Trauma moderates the development of the oscillatory dynamics serving working memory in a sex-specific manner.Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) · 2022Article
- Longitudinal changes in the neural oscillatory dynamics underlying abstract reasoning in children and adolescents.NeuroImage · 2022Article
- Executive functioning deficits exacerbate posttraumatic stress symptoms: A longitudinal mediation model.Journal of anxiety disorders · 2022Article
- Circuit-Based Biomarkers for Mood and Anxiety Disorders.Trends in neurosciences · 2020Review
- Numerical working memory alters alpha-beta oscillations and connectivity in the parietal cortices.Human brain mapping · 2020Article
- Multielectrode Transcranial Electrical Stimulation of the Left and Right Prefrontal Cortices Differentially Impacts Verbal Working Memory Neural Circuitry.Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) · 2020Article
- Aberrant brain dynamics in neuroHIV: Evidence from magnetoencephalographic (MEG) imaging.Progress in molecular biology and translational science · 2019Review
- Load modulates the alpha and beta oscillatory dynamics serving verbal working memory.NeuroImage · 2019Article
- Aberrant regional homogeneity in post-traumatic stress disorder after traffic accident: A resting-state functional MRI study.NeuroImage. Clinical · 2019Article
- The Predictive Processing Model of EMDR.Frontiers in psychology · 2019Article
- Altered Brain Dynamics in Patients With Type 1 Diabetes During Working Memory Processing.Diabetes · 2018Article
- Veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder exhibit altered emotional processing and attentional control during an emotional Stroop task.Psychological medicine · 2017Article
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Abstract
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is associated with executive functioning deficits, including disruptions in working memory (WM). Recent studies suggest that attention training reduces PTSD symptomatology, but the underlying neural mechanisms are unknown. We used high-density magnetoencephalography (MEG) to evaluate whether attention training modulates brain regions serving WM processing in PTSD. Fourteen veterans with PTSD completed a WM task during a 306-sensor MEG recording before and after 8 sessions of attention training treatment. A matched comparison sample of 12 combat-exposed veterans without PTSD completed the same WM task during a single MEG session. To identify the spatiotemporal dynamics, each group's data were transformed into the time-frequency domain, and significant oscillatory brain responses were imaged using a beamforming approach. All participants exhibited activity in left hemispheric language areas consistent with a verbal WM task. Additionally, veterans with PTSD and combat-exposed healthy controls each exhibited oscillatory responses in right hemispheric homologue regions (e.g., right Broca's area); however, these responses were in opposite directions. Group differences in oscillatory activity emerged in the theta band (4-8 Hz) during encoding and in the alpha band (9-12 Hz) during maintenance and were significant in right prefrontal and right supramarginal and inferior parietal regions. Importantly, following attention training, these significant group differences were reduced or eliminated. This study provides initial evidence that attention training improves aberrant neural activity in brain networks serving WM processing.
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