Memory performance in older trauma survivors: Implications for the longitudinal course of PTSD

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1071, Issue , 2006, Pages 54-66

  Golier, Julia A ^a   Harvey, Philip D ^b   Legge, Juliana ^b   Yehuda, Rachel ^b  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Aging; Geriatric; Memory; Neuropsychology; Trauma

Indexed keywords

AGING; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONFERENCE PAPER; CRIME; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; LONG TERM MEMORY; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEMORY; MEMORY DISORDER; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; RECALL; RECOGNITION; RISK FACTOR;

EID: 33746452106     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1364.006     Document Type: Conference Paper

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