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Christopher Averill

Neuroimaging Specialist, Yale School of Medicine
Verified email at yale.edu
Cited by 2359

A network-based neurobiological model of PTSD: evidence from structural and functional neuroimaging studies

TJ Akiki, CL Averill, CG Abdallah - Current psychiatry reports, 2017 - Springer
Purpose of Review Although a fine-grained understanding of the neurobiology of posttraumatic
stress disorder (PTSD) is yet to be elucidated, the last two decades have seen a rapid …

Glutamate dysregulation and glutamatergic therapeutics for PTSD: Evidence from human studies

LA Averill, P Purohit, CL Averill, MA Boesl, JH Krystal… - Neuroscience …, 2017 - Elsevier
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a chronic and debilitating psychiatric disorder afflicting
millions of individuals across the world. While the availability of robust pharmacologic …

The effects of ketamine on prefrontal glutamate neurotransmission in healthy and depressed subjects

…, HM De Feyter, LA Averill, L Jiang, CL Averill… - …, 2018 - nature.com
The ability of ketamine administration to activate prefrontal glutamate neurotransmission is
thought to be a key mechanism contributing to its transient psychotomimetic effects and its …

Default mode network abnormalities in posttraumatic stress disorder: A novel network-restricted topology approach

TJ Akiki, CL Averill, KM Wrocklage, JC Scott, LA Averill… - Neuroimage, 2018 - Elsevier
Disruption in the default mode network (DMN) has been implicated in numerous neuropsychiatric
disorders, including posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). However, studies have …

The neurobiology and pharmacotherapy of posttraumatic stress disorder

…, LA Averill, TJ Akiki, M Raza, CL Averill… - Annual Review of …, 2019 - annualreviews.org
New approaches to the neurobiology of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are needed to
address the reported crisis in PTSD drug development. These new approaches may require …

Prefrontal connectivity and glutamate transmission: relevance to depression pathophysiology and ketamine treatment

CG Abdallah, CL Averill, R Salas, LA Averill… - Biological Psychiatry …, 2017 - Elsevier
Background Prefrontal global brain connectivity with global signal regression (GBCr) was
proposed as a robust biomarker of depression and was associated with ketamine’s …

Cortical thickness reduction in combat exposed US veterans with and without PTSD

KM Wrocklage, LA Averill, JC Scott, CL Averill… - European …, 2017 - Elsevier
We investigated the extent of cortical thinning in US Veterans exposed to combat who
varied in the severity of their posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms. In addition, we …

Altered white matter microstructural organization in posttraumatic stress disorder across 3047 adults: results from the PGC-ENIGMA PTSD consortium

…, M Logue, EK Clarke, CC Haswell, CL Averill… - Molecular …, 2021 - nature.com
A growing number of studies have examined alterations in white matter organization in people
with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) using diffusion MRI (dMRI), but the results have …

Assessment of brain age in posttraumatic stress disorder: Findings from the ENIGMA PTSD and brain age working groups

…, B Suarez‐Jimenez, BO Olatunji, CL Averill… - Brain and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Background Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is associated with markers of accelerated
aging. Estimates of brain age, compared to chronological age, may clarify the effects of …

The association of PTSD symptom severity with localized hippocampus and amygdala abnormalities

TJ Akiki, CL Averill, KM Wrocklage… - Chronic …, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
Background The hippocampus and amygdala have been repeatedly implicated in the
psychopathology of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). While numerous structural …