http://www.nitrc.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=6235 <table border="0" width="100%"><tr><td align="left"/></tr></table> <p><b>The neural correlates of memory for a life-threatening event: An fMRI study of passengers from flight AT236.</b></p> <p>Clin Psychol Sci. 2016 Mar;4(2):312-319</p> <p>Authors: Palombo DJ, McKinnon MC, McIntosh AR, Anderson AK, Todd RM, Levine B</p> <p>Abstract<br/> We investigated the neural correlates of remote traumatic reexperiencing in survivors of a life-threatening incident: the near crash of Air Transat (AT) Flight 236. Survivors' brain activity was monitored during video-cued recollection of the AT disaster, September 11(th), 2001 (9/11), and a comparatively non-emotional (neutral) event. Passengers showed a robust memory enhancement effect for the AT incident relative to the 9/11 and neutral events. This traumatic memory enhancement was associated with activation in the amygdala, medial temporal lobe, anterior and posterior midline, and visual cortex in passengers. This brain-behavior relationship also held in relation to 9/11, which had elevated significance for passengers given its temporal proximity to the AT disaster. This pattern was not observed in a comparison group of non-traumatized individuals who were also scanned. These findings suggest that remote, traumatic memory is mediated by amygdalar activity, which likely enhances vividness via influences on hippocampal and ventral visual systems.<br/> </p><p>PMID: 27158567 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]</p> en-us Copyright 2000-2026 NITRC OSI Mon, 04 May 2026 23:58:25 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss NITRC RSS generator