Stress and Emotional Memory (SEME)

Stress and Emotional Memory : Functional Neuroanatomy of Post-traumatic Stress Disorder in Adolescents

A broad group of disorders is associated with severe stress existence in children or adolescents. The most characteristic result, and one of the most serious being the state of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), whose main source consists of physical or sexual violence, and to a lesser extent, accidents public road or natural disaster, whose child was the subject or witness. PTSD is associated with a deleterious effect on cognition and including the mnemonic operation. The painful reminder of the traumatic event is one of the most disabling symptoms. However, there are many other memory disorders that experimental studies gradually update. They maintain a close link with emotional regulation that disturbed you know if PTSD. However the majority of studies on emotion and cognition and their relationship with brain activity took adult subject. Work in adolescents are few on the morphological study, on rare neurobehavioral and reduced to two studies of functional neuroimaging. Contrary to what is observed in adults, morphological studies report consistently, no reduction in hippocampal volume. There is no study in the idle state. Two studies in functional MRI, the first highlighted in PTSD patients inhibition of the activity of the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) to stimuli such as to evoke the trauma, a second reported increased activity in the prefrontal cortex Median (mPFC) in a inhibition. The objective task of our study is to evaluate the impact of psychological trauma on brain structures involved in the emotional component of the memory (amygdala, hippocampus, prefrontal cortex in particular). For this, the investigators will take in 33 adolescents, including patients with posttraumatic symptomatology and matched controls free of trauma age, several neuroimaging exams, anatomical and functional. The functional review will include some rest and another in activation during episodic memory task designed to assess the influence of self-perception on memory impairment observed in patients. The investigators will check, for each group of patients and controls, the involvement of cortical structures in relation to the regulation of emotional memory (CCA, amygdala and hippocampus). The anatomy of the hippocampus benefit specific imaging methods developed in the unit INSERM U923. Endocrine correlates of stress tests will be studied by a fully-traumatic by salivary cortisol sampling.

This research will clarify the mechanisms involved in emotional and memory impairments secondary to psychological trauma, their relationship with self (judgment and self-esteem) and studying their morphological substrates. A longer-term goal is to offer help in the diagnosis and monitoring of young patients with posttraumatic symptomatology.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic
• Intervention / Treatment: Other: MRI

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 19
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• France
  • Caen, France, 14000
    • Service de Pédopsychiatrie

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 13 years to 18 years (Child, Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• Subjects aged 13-18 years
• Informed consent signed by the legal representative and adolescents (e) itself.
• Speaking French as their mother tongue
• patients:subjects with a history of psychological trauma (eg, accidents of public roads (without head trauma), physical or sexual violence) recruited in the care services of hospitals, the diagnosis of chronic PTSD is made using a standardized interview (SCID).
• Healthy controls : subjects who do not have a history of psychological trauma, nor PTSD

Exclusion Criteria:

• ASD, schizophrenia, ADHD
• Head injury with loss of consciousness
• Regular or recent use of alcohol or drugs
• chronic neurological or endocrine disorder
• use of medication that could interfere with the mnemonic or metabolic measurements (psychotropic, hypnotics, anxiolytics, neuroleptics, benzodiazepines, drugs, antiepileptics anti-inflammatory, anti-histamines, central analgesics and muscle relaxants)
• Contraindications to MRI (claustrophobia, metallic object intracorporal)
• Manual Predominance left
• Severe mental retardation evaluated using two subtests from the WISC-IV scales and WAIS III
• Reading Disorders valued using the read speed test

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Diagnostic
• Allocation: Non-Randomized
• Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
• Masking: None (Open Label)

Number of Arms

2

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Other: PTSD group	Other: MRI
Other: Healthy Volunteers; Healthy Volunteers, age-matched controls.	Other: MRI

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Time Frame
Amplitude of the BOLD fMRI signal measured at rest and during cognitive tasks (activation)	baseline

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: University Hospital, Caen

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start: May 1, 2012
• Primary Completion (Actual): April 1, 2015
• Study Completion (Actual): April 1, 2015

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: July 27, 2015
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: July 28, 2015
• First Posted (Estimate): July 29, 2015

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Estimate): July 29, 2015
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: July 28, 2015
• Last Verified: July 1, 2015

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Mental Disorders; Trauma and Stressor Related Disorders; Stress Disorders, Traumatic; Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic
• Other Study ID Numbers: 10-035