Learning and memory in Holocaust survivors with posttraumatic stress disorder

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 291-295

  Yehuda, Rachel ^a,c   Golier, Julia A ^a   Halligan, Sarah L ^b   Harvey, Philip D ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^c Bronx VA 00MH ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

California Verbal Learning Test; Holocaust; Memory; PTSD; Trauma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRIME; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; LEARNING; LEARNING DISORDER; MALE; MEMORY; MEMORY DISORDER; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SURVIVAL; VERBAL MEMORY; VICTIM;

EID: 1642564366     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3223(03)00641-3     Document Type: Article

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