Fig. 5.: Acquired Abnormality in SN Connectivity After Trauma Exposure.

Increased coupling (stemming from reduced decoupling) between the overall SN and anterior cerebellum (as depicted in the brain image) from Wave1 to Wave2 in response to acute-stress induction was associated with higher levels of intrusion symptom, indicated by CAPS scores. The arrow demonstrates functional connectivity changes between the overall salience network (i.e., coefficients extracted using the depicted network mask thresholded at Z > 3) and clusters in anterior cerebellum. To note, spearman rank correlation was conducted to minimize the influences from the extreme values.