Post-traumatic stress disorder and memory: Prescient medicolegal testimony at the International War Crimes Tribunal?

Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 71-78

  Sparr, Landy F ^a   Bremner, J Douglas ^b  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; CRIME; EXPERIENCE; EXPERT WITNESS; HUMAN; LAW ENFORCEMENT; MEDICOLEGAL ASPECT; MEMORY; MOSLEM; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOTRAUMA; RAPE; REVIEW; WAR; WITNESS;

BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA; CROATIA; EXPERT TESTIMONY; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; MEMORY DISORDERS; NETHERLANDS; PSYCHIATRY; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; WAR CRIMES;

EID: 15244346670     PISSN: 10936793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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