Memory performance in Holocaust survivors with posttraumatic stress disorder

American Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 159, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 1682-1688

  Golier, Julia A ^a   Yehuda, Rachel ^a   Lupien, Sonia J ^a   Harvey, Philip D ^a   Grossman, Robert ^a   Elkin, Abbie ^a  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRIME; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; MALE; MEMORY; PATIENT; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECALL; RISK FACTOR;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HOLOCAUST; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; JEWS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; MEMORY DISORDERS; MENTAL RECALL; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PAIRED-ASSOCIATE LEARNING; RISK FACTORS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; SURVIVORS;

EID: 0036789214     PISSN: 0002953X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1176/appi.ajp.159.10.1682     Document Type: Article

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