Sensory gating in chronic posttraumatic stress disorder: Reduced auditory p50 suppression in combat veterans

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 46, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 1656-1664

  Neylan, Thomas C ^a   Fletcher, Daniel J ^b   Lenoci, Maryann ^b   McCallin, Keith ^b   Weiss, Daniel S ^b   Schoenfeld, Frank B ^b   Marmar, Charles R ^b   Fein, George ^b  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Electroencephalography; Evoked potentials; Habituation; Hippocampus; Neural inhibition; Stress disorders

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; MALE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY NERVE; SOLDIER; STRESS;

AUDITORY THRESHOLD; BRAIN; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; HABITUATION, PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEURAL INHIBITION; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; UNITED STATES; VETERANS; VIETNAM; WAR;

EID: 0033406041     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3223(99)00047-5     Document Type: Article

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