Can cognitive neuroscience illuminate the nature of traumatic childhood memories?

Current Opinion in Neurobiology

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 207-214

  Schacter, Daniel L ^a   Koutstaal, Wilma ^a   Norman, Kenneth A ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HORMONE;

ADULT; BRAIN INJURY; CHILD; COGNITION; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; LONG TERM MEMORY; NEUROSCIENCE; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROGRADE AMNESIA; REVIEW; SEXUAL ABUSE;

EID: 0029887179     PISSN: 09594388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0959-4388(96)80074-2     Document Type: Article

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