Combat effects on mental health: The more things change, the more they remain the same

Archives of General Psychiatry

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 127-128

  Pitman, Roger K ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN REGION; COMORBIDITY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EMOTION; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MENTAL HEALTH; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NOTE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSICAL DISEASE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHOTRAUMA; RISK; SELF REPORT; SENSORY SYSTEM; TIME OF DEATH; VETERAN; WAR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AMERICAN CIVIL WAR; CHILD; COMBAT DISORDERS; COMORBIDITY; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HUMANS; MALE; MILITARY PERSONNEL; RISK FACTORS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; UNITED STATES; VETERANS; VIETNAM CONFLICT;

EID: 32244438457     PISSN: 0003990X     EISSN: 15383636     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archpsyc.63.2.127     Document Type: Note

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