Longitudinal Assessment of Cognitive Performance in Holocaust Survivors with and without PTSD

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 60, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 714-721

  Yehuda, Rachel ^a   Tischler, Lisa ^a   Golier, Julia A ^a   Grossman, Robert ^a   Brand, Sarah R ^a   Kaufman, Shira ^a   Harvey, Philip D ^a,b  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; California Verbal Learning Test; memory; paired associate learning; PTSD

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CRIME; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LEARNING TEST; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MEMORY; MEMORY DISORDER; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PAIRED ASSOCIATE LEARNING; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYMPTOM; VICTIM;

AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; COGNITION; COGNITION DISORDERS; FEMALE; HOLOCAUST; HUMANS; JEWS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; REFERENCE VALUES; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; SURVIVORS; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 33746455015     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2006.03.069     Document Type: Article

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