Building a model of posttraumatic stress disorder

American Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 159, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 1631-1633

  Shear, M Katherine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASSAULT; EDITORIAL; EDUCATION; EMOTION; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; GENDER; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MEMORY; MODEL; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REM SLEEP; RISK FACTOR; VIOLENCE;

AGED; DREAMS; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; MEMORY; MEMORY DISORDERS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; RISK FACTORS; SLEEP, REM; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

EID: 0036788347     PISSN: 0002953X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1176/appi.ajp.159.10.1631     Document Type: Editorial

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