Neural Basis of Psychological Growth following Adverse Experiences: A Resting-State Functional MRI Study

Takashi X Fujisawa, Minyoung Jung, Masahiko Kojima, Daisuke N Saito, Hirotaka Kosaka and Akemi Tomoda

PLOS ONE, 2015, vol. 10, issue 8, 1-14

Abstract: Over the past decade, research on the aftereffects of stressful or traumatic events has emphasized the negative outcomes from these experiences. However, the positive outcomes deriving from adversity are increasingly being examined, and such positive changes are described as posttraumatic growth (PTG). To investigate the relationship between basal whole-brain functional connectivity and PTG, we employed resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging and analyzed the neural networks using independent component analysis in a sample of 33 healthy controls. Correlations were calculated between the network connectivity strength and the Posttraumatic Growth Inventory (PTGI) score. There were positive associations between the PTGI scores and brain activation in the rostral prefrontal cortex and superior parietal lobule (SPL) within the left central executive network (CEN) (respectively, r = 0.41, p

Date: 2015
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