Post-traumatic stress disorder, resilience and vulnerability

Advances in Psychiatric Treatment

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 369-375

  Ahmed, Ayesha S ^a  

^a GLENFIELD HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; DEXAMETHASONE; DOPAMINE 2 RECEPTOR; GLUCOCORTICOID; HYDROCORTISONE; MINERALOCORTICOID; NEUROPEPTIDE Y; SEROTONIN;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANXIETY DISORDER; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; CHRONIC PAIN; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITIVE THERAPY; COMORBIDITY; COPING BEHAVIOR; DEPRESSION; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DISTRESS SYNDROME; DOPAMINE BLOOD LEVEL; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; GENDER BIAS; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; HEREDITY; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; LOW DRUG DOSE; MENTAL STRESS; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROSIS; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOTRAUMA; RAPE; REFUGEE; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SELF ESTEEM; SEROTONIN BLOOD LEVEL; SEXUAL ABUSE; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOMATIZATION; SUBSTANCE ABUSE;

EID: 38549171471     PISSN: 13555146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1192/apt.bp.106.003236     Document Type: Review

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