Short communication: Visuoconstructional ability in PTSD patients compared to a control group with the same ethnic background

Stress and Health

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 35-43

  Emdad, Reza ^a   Söndergaard, Hans Peter ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Block Design Test (BDT); Duration of PTSD; Intelligence; Short term memory

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATIVE MEMORY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE; ETHNOLOGY; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE TEST; INTERRATER RELIABILITY; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREDICTION; REFUGEE; RISK FACTOR; SCORING SYSTEM; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SWEDEN; VISUAL MEMORY;

EID: 33644766160     PISSN: 15323005     EISSN: 15322998     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/smi.1076     Document Type: Article

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