Altered pain processing in veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder

Archives of General Psychiatry

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 76-85

  Geuze, Elbert ^a,b   Westenberg, Herman G M ^b   Jochims, Anja ^c   De Kloet, Carien S ^a   Bohus, Martin ^c   Vermetten, Eric ^a,b   Schmahl, Christian ^c  

^a CENTRAL MILITARY HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; BODY TEMPERATURE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NOCICEPTION; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHOMETRY; PSYCHOPHYSICS; VETERAN;

ADULT; AMBULATORY CARE; AMYGDALA; BRAIN; CEREBRAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HEAT; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OXYGEN; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PAIN THRESHOLD; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; VETERANS;

EID: 33845988787     PISSN: 0003990X     EISSN: 15383636     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archpsyc.64.1.76     Document Type: Article

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