Physiologic responses to loud tones in Israeli veterans of the 1973 Yom Kippur war

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 319-326

  Orr, Scott P ^a,c,d,e   Solomon, Zahava ^b   Peri, Tuvia ^a   Pitman, Roger K ^c,d   Shalev, Arieh Y ^a  

^a HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c Manchester VA Medical Center   (United States)

^d MASSACHUSETTS MENTAL HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

^e VA Research Service   (United States)

Author keywords

posttraumatic stress disorder; psychophysiology; startle; veterans

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEART RATE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN CONDUCTANCE; STARTLE REFLEX; WAR;

EID: 0031081456     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3223(95)00671-0     Document Type: Article

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