ArticleFrontiers in psychiatry2019
The Electrical Aftermath: Brain Signals of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Filtered Through a Clinical Lens.
Article in Frontiers in psychiatry, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT07206381 (EMDR Group Therapy for Earthquake-Exposed Trauma Survivors), which is not on this map. Cited by 20 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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EMDR Group Therapy for Earthquake-Exposed Trauma Survivors: A Randomized Trial of Psychological and QEEG Outcomes
Who cites it
20 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 45 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Event-related potentials associated with cognitive control in adolescents exposed to complex childhood trauma.European journal of psychotraumatology · 2025Article
- Towards predicting posttraumatic stress symptom severity using portable EEG-derived biomarkers.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Advances in Electroencephalography for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Identification: A Scoping Review.IEEE open journal of engineering in medicine and biology · 2025Article
- EEG in Education: A Scoping Review of Hardware, Software, and Methodological Aspects.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, suicidal ideation and ketamine: a case report.Journal of medical case reports · 2024Article
- Towards predicting PTSD symptom severity using portable EEG-derived biomarkers.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2024Article
- Temporal-Posterior Alpha Power in Resting-State Electroencephalography as a Potential Marker of Complex Childhood Trauma in Institutionalized Adolescents.Brain sciences · 2024Article
- Indirect Exposure to Atrocities and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Symptoms among Aid Workers: Hemispheric Lateralization Matters.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Article
- Increasing Value and Reducing Waste of Research on Neurofeedback Effects in Post-traumatic Stress Disorder: A State-of-the-Art-Review.Applied psychophysiology and biofeedback · 2024Review
- Potential Neurophysiological Markers of Combat-Related Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: A Cross-Sectional Diagnostic Study.Consortium psychiatricum · 2024Article
- Neurophysiological insights into impaired mentalization in borderline personality disorder an electroencephalography study.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Article
- Review of electroencephalography signals approaches for mental stress assessment.Neurosciences (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia) · 2022Review
- Addressing racial and phenotypic bias in human neuroscience methods.Nature neuroscience · 2022Review
- Brain Responses to a Self-Compassion Induction in Trauma Survivors With and Without Post-traumatic Stress Disorder.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Changes in Brain Electrical Activity According to Post-traumatic Stress Symptoms in Survivors of the Sewol Ferry Disaster: A 1-year Longitudinal Study.Clinical psychopharmacology and neuroscience : the official scientific journal of the Korean College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2021Article
- Women with Major Depressive Disorder, Irrespective of Comorbid Anxiety Disorders, Show Blunted Bilateral Frontal Responses during Win and Loss Anticipation.Journal of affective disorders · 2020Article
- Artificial intelligence in prediction of mental health disorders induced by the COVID-19 pandemic among health care workers.Croatian medical journal · 2020Article
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Abstract
This review aims to identify patterns of electrical signals identified using electroencephalography (EEG) linked to posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) diagnosis and symptom dimensions. We filter EEG findings through a clinical lens, evaluating nuances in findings according to study criteria and participant characteristics. Within the EEG frequency domain, greater right than left parietal asymmetry in alpha band power is the most promising marker of PTSD symptoms and is linked to exaggerated physiological arousal that may impair filtering of environmental distractors. The most consistent findings within the EEG time domain focused on event related potentials (ERPs) include: 1) exaggerated frontocentral responses (contingent negative variation, mismatch negativity, and P3a amplitudes) to task-irrelevant distractors, and 2) attenuated parietal responses (P3b amplitudes) to task-relevant target stimuli. These findings suggest that some individuals with PTSD suffer from attention dysregulation, which could contribute to problems concentrating on daily tasks and goals in lieu of threatening distractors. Future research investigating the utility of alpha asymmetry and frontoparietal ERPs as diagnostic and predictive biomarkers or intervention targets are recommended.
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