Psychic trauma causing grossly reduced brain metabolism and cognitive deterioration

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 77-82

  Markowitsch, Hans J ^a   Kessler, Josef ^b   Van Der Ven, Christian ^b   Weber Luxenburger, Gerald ^b   Albers, Manfred ^c   Heiss, Wolf Dieter ^b,c  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR NEUROLOGICAL RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Amnesia; Brain; Positron emission tomography; Stress

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN METABOLISM; CASE REPORT; COGNITIVE DEFECT; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; MALE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PSYCHOTRAUMA;

ADULT; AMNESIA; BRAIN; COGNITION DISORDERS; HUMANS; MALE; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED;

EID: 0031905425     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0028-3932(97)00093-6     Document Type: Article

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