The Natural History of Neuroendocrine Changes in Pediatric Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) After Motor Vehicle Accidents: Progressive Divergence of Noradrenaline and Cortisol Concentrations Over Time

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 62, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1095-1102

  Pervanidou, Panagiota ^a   Kolaitis, Gerasimos ^a   Charitaki, Stella ^a   Lazaropoulou, Christina ^b   Papassotiriou, Ioannis ^b   Hindmarsh, Peter ^c   Bakoula, Chrysa ^a   Tsiantis, John ^a   Chrousos, George P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^b AGHIA SOPHIA CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^c GREAT ORMOND STREET HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Childhood; development; motor vehicle accidents; plasma catecholamines; PTSD; salivary cortisol

Indexed keywords

CATECHOLAMINE; HYDROCORTISONE; NORADRENALIN;

ARTICLE; CATECHOLAMINE SYNTHESIS; CHILD BEHAVIOR CHECKLIST; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; LIFE EVENTS SCALE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NORADRENALIN BLOOD LEVEL; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALIVA ANALYSIS; SALIVA LEVEL; SCHOOL CHILD; STATE TRAIT ANXIETY INVENTORY; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADOLESCENT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BODY MASS INDEX; CHILD; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; IMMUNOASSAY; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; NOREPINEPHRINE; PEDIATRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SALIVA; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 35648951228     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2007.02.008     Document Type: Article

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