After facing traumatic stress: Brain activation, cognition and stress coping in policemen

Journal of Psychiatric Research

Volumn 43, Issue 14, 2009, Pages 1146-1155

  Hennig Fast, Kristina ^a   Werner, Natalie S ^a   Lermer, Ramona ^a   Latscha, Knut ^b   Meister, Franziska ^a   Reiser, Maximilian ^a   Engel, Rolf R ^a   Meindl, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b Police University of Baden Würtemberg   (Germany)

Author keywords

Associative memory and cognition; fMRI; Resilience; Stress coping; Trauma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATIVE MEMORY; BRAIN FUNCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; MEMORY DISORDER; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PATTERN RECOGNITION; POLICE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECALL; RESPONSE TIME; STRESS MANAGEMENT; SUBICULUM; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COGNITION; FACE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; OXYGEN; PHOTIC STIMULATION; POLICE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REACTION TIME; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70149118744     PISSN: 00223956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpsychires.2009.03.001     Document Type: Article

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