Annual Research Review: Pediatric posttraumatic stress disorder from a neurodevelopmental network perspective.
Carl F WeemsJustin D RussellErin L NeillBethany H McCurdyPublished in: Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines (2018)
Future research will benefit from adopting a truly developmental approach that considers children's growth as a meaningful effect (rather than simply a covariate) interacting with traumatic stress to predict disruptions in the anatomical, functional, and connective aspects of brain systems thought to underlie the network of PTSD symptoms. Linking symptom networks with neurodevelopmental network models may be a promising avenue for future work.