Delayed recall of childhood sexual abuse memories and the awakening rise and diurnal pattern of cortisol

Psychiatry Research

Volumn 152, Issue 2-3, 2007, Pages 197-204

  Smeets, Tom ^a   Geraerts, Elke ^a   Jelicic, Marko ^a   Merckelbach, Harald ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

cortisol; CSA; glucocorticoids; recovered memory; repressed memory

Indexed keywords

HYDROCORTISONE;

ADULT; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; CHILD ABUSE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HORMONE RESPONSE; HUMAN; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; MEMORY; NEUROBIOLOGY; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECALL; SEXUAL ABUSE; SLEEP;

ADULT; CHILD; CHILD ABUSE, SEXUAL; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; MALE; MEMORY; MENTAL RECALL; PITUITARY-ADRENAL SYSTEM; SALIVA; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; TIME FACTORS; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 34547657621     PISSN: 01651781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psychres.2006.07.008     Document Type: Article

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