fMRI links traumatic flashbacks to brain malfunction

December 3, 2008 DiagnosticImaging.com. fMRI links traumatic flashbacks to brain malfunction By Kristen Minogue For victims of psychological trauma, the challenge of suppressing painful memories may be rooted in the wiring of the brain, an ongoing study revealed at the RSNA conference Wednesday. "These patients, they just become hyper-vigilant, hypersensitive to these events, and they are not capable of processing them, so they have flashbacks," said Dr. Nivedita Agarwal, a radiology resident at the University of Udine in Italy who presented the study.

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