Psychiatric effects of traumatic brain injury events in Cambodian survivors of mass violence

British Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 181, Issue OCT., 2002, Pages 339-347

  Mollica, Richard F ^a   Henderson, David C ^a   Tor, Svang ^a  

^a Harvard Program in Refugee Trauma   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CAMBODIA; DEPRESSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; VIOLENCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN INJURIES; CAMBODIA; COERCION; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MARITAL STATUS; MIDDLE AGED; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; SURVIVORS; VIOLENCE; WAR;

EID: 0036795039     PISSN: 00071250     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1192/bjp.181.4.339     Document Type: Article

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