Inescapable shock, neurotransmitters, and addiction to trauma: Toward a psychobiology of post traumatic stress

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 1985, Pages 314-325

  van der Kolk, Bessel ^a,b   Greenberg, Mark ^a,c   Boyd, Helene ^a,b   Krystal, John ^d  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS MENTAL HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

^c BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATECHOLAMINE; OPIATE;

CATATONIA; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; HUMAN; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRESS; THEORETICAL STUDY;

ANIMAL; AROUSAL; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; BRAIN; DOPAMINE; ELECTROSHOCK; ENDORPHINS; HELPLESSNESS, LEARNED; HUMAN; LOCUS COERULEUS; METHOXYHYDROXYPHENYLGLYCOL; MOTIVATION; NEUROTRANSMITTERS; NOCICEPTORS; NOREPINEPHRINE; SLEEP STAGES; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, NON-P.H.S.;

EID: 0022210385     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0006-3223(85)90061-7     Document Type: Article

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