Childhood trauma and amygdala nuclei volumes in youth at risk for mental illness.
Nikita NogovitsynJean AddingtonRoberto SouzaThea J PlacskoJacqueline StowkowyJianLi WangBenjamin I GoldsteinSigne BrayCatherine LebelValerie H TaylorSidney H KennedyGlenda MacQueenPublished in: Psychological medicine (2020)
The experience of physical or sexual abuse may leave detectable structural alterations in key regions of the amygdala, potentially mediating the risk of psychopathology in trauma-exposed youth.