Status:

COMPLETED

PTSD Among Victims of Sexual Abuse and Changes in Structural and Functional Brain Connectivity

Lead Sponsor:

University Hospital, Tours

Conditions:

PostTraumatic Stress Disorder

Eligibility:

FEMALE

18-50 years

Brief Summary

The goal of this study is to identify the early modifications in fronto-temporal connectivity in female victims who developed PTSD, compared to female victims who did not develop the disorder, and to ...

Detailed Description

Most of the transversal neuroimaging studies in posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) were conducted in male war veterans. Few studies focused on neuroanatomical correlates of PTSD in civilian populati...

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • Written consent
  • affiliated to the National Health Insurance
  • without neurological past history
  • without psychoactive drugs past history

Exclusion

  • the subject can not follow the instructions
  • simultaneous participation to an other study using psychoactive drugs
  • blindness
  • epilepsy
  • addiction to psychoactive drugs
  • MRI counter-indications (pace-makers ...)
  • claustrophobia
  • every circumstances making the subject unable to understand the nature, the objectives or the consequences of the study

Key Trial Info

Start Date :

February 1 2012

Trial Type :

OBSERVATIONAL

Allocation :

ACTUAL

End Date :

August 1 2016

Estimated Enrollment :

60 Patients enrolled

Trial Details

Trial ID

NCT01405495

Start Date

February 1 2012

End Date

August 1 2016

Last Update

May 4 2017

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Bretonneau Regional Universitary Hospital

Tours, France, 37044 cedex 9