Is caffeine involved in the pathogenesis of combat-stress reaction?

Military Medicine

Volumn 161, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 230-232

  Lancu, Iulian ^a   Dolberg, Ornah T ^a   Zohar, Joseph ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAFFEINE;

ANXIETY; HUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; REVIEW; STRESS; WITHDRAWAL REFLEX;

EID: 0029983581     PISSN: 00264075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/milmed/161.4.230     Document Type: Review

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