The psychobiology of traumatic memory. Clinical implications of neuroimaging studies

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 821, Issue , 1997, Pages 99-113

  Van Der Kolk, Bessel A ^a   Burbridge, Jennifer A ^a   Suzuki, Joji ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMNESIA; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; CONFERENCE PAPER; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; HEMISPHERE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; IMAGING; INTELLECT; MEMORY; NIGHTMARE; PERSONALITY DISORDER; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOBIOLOGY; SENSORY CORTEX; SEXUAL ABUSE;

EID: 0030846342     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1997.tb48272.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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