Individual differences in a husband and wife who developed PTSD after a motor vehicle accident: A functional MRI case study

American Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 160, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 667-669

  Lanius, Ruth A ^a   Hopper, James W ^b   Menon, Ravi S ^b  

^a LONDON HEALTH SCIENCES CENTRE   (Canada)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CASE REPORT; CASE STUDY; CONFERENCE PAPER; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; MALE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISSOCIATIVE DISORDER; HEART RATE; IMAGINATION; INDIVIDUALITY; LIFE EVENT; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SPOUSE;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; BRAIN; DISSOCIATIVE DISORDERS; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; INDIVIDUALITY; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; SPOUSES; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

EID: 0038811918     PISSN: 0002953X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1176/appi.ajp.160.4.667     Document Type: Conference Paper

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