What is it that a neurobiological model of PTSD must explain?

Progress in Brain Research

Volumn 167, Issue , 2007, Pages 217-228

  Brewin, Chris R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

amygdala; hippocampus; memory; PTSD; stress

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; CLINICAL FEATURE; DOWN REGULATION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HUMAN; NEUROBIOLOGY; NIGHTMARE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SENSORY MEMORY; VERBAL MEMORY; VISUAL MEMORY;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HUMANS; MEMORY; RISK FACTORS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 36248966162     PISSN: 00796123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0079-6123(07)67015-0     Document Type: Review

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