β-blockers in post-traumatic stress disorder: Uses and controversies

Expert Review of Neurotherapeutics

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 699-702

  Van Stegeren, Anda ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CYCLOSERINE; NORADRENALIN; PLACEBO; PROPRANOLOL;

ADRENERGIC SYSTEM; BRAIN LEVEL; CLINICAL TRIAL; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG USE; EDITORIAL; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; LONG TERM MEMORY; MEMORY; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MEMORY DISORDER; NONHUMAN; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRESCRIPTION;

ADRENERGIC BETA-ANTAGONISTS; EMOTIONS; HUMANS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

EID: 27944506000     PISSN: 14737175     EISSN: 17448360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1586/14737175.5.6.699     Document Type: Editorial

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