Short communication: Impairments in short-term memory, and figure logic, in PTSD patients compared to healthy controls with the same ethnic background

Stress and Health

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 33-44

  Emdad, Reza ^a   Sondergaard, Hans Peter ^b   Theorell, Töres ^c  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Brain function; Education; Figure logic; PTSD; Short term memory

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNOLOGY; HUMAN; IRAQ; LOGIC; MALE; MEMORY DISORDER; MENTAL TEST; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS OF COVARIANCE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; REFUGEE; SHORT TERM MEMORY; VISUAL MEMORY;

EID: 14544278843     PISSN: 15323005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/smi.1034     Document Type: Article

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