目的:探讨慢性创伤后应激障碍(post-traumatic stress disorder,PTSD)患者脑功能激活特征。方法:对17例矿难相关的慢性PTSD患者和14例经历相同矿难未患病的对照进行脑功能磁共振成像。使用Matlab6.5和SPM2软件对功能磁共振数据进行处理。结果:与对照组相比,患者组左海马旁回激活增强;右楔前叶激活降低。与中性图片相比,患者组面对负性图片时右海马旁回、右梭状回、右枕下回、双侧枕中回的激活增强;左顶下小叶、左顶上小叶、右中央后回、左楔叶、背外侧前额叶的激活降低。对照组面对负性图片时,右楔前叶激活增强;右岛叶激活降低。结论:这些脑区改变可能反映了PTSD患者症状包括对创伤情绪和记忆加工不足的复杂的生物学机制。
Objective:To study the features of brain functional activation in patients with chronic post-traumatic stress disorder(PTSD).Methods:Seventeen miners with chronic PTSD resulting from a severe mining accident and 14 miners exposed to the same accident without PTSD underwent functional magnetic imaging(fMRI).Results:The PTSD group showed greater activation in left parahippocampal gyrus and lower activation in right precuneus than non-PTSD controls.As compared with the control group,the PTSD group showed greater activations in right parahippocampal gyrus,right fusiform gyrus,right inferior occipital gyrus,bilateral middle occipital gyri in response to negative pictures;and lower activation in left inferior parietal gyrus,left superior parietal gyrus,right postcentral gyrus,left cuneus,dorsolateral prefrontal gyrus than in response to neutral pictures.The non-PTSD controls showed greater activation in right precuneus and lower insular in response to negative pictures,than in response to neutral pictures.Conclusion:The change of the brain may reflect complex biological mechanism of PTSD symptoms,including insufficient processing of traumatic emotion and memory.