Memory in PTSD:A neurocognitive approach

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: Basic Science and Clinical Practice

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 105-130

  Verfaellie, Mieke ^a   Vasterling, Jennifer J ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Amygdala; autobiographical memory; frontal lobes; hippocampus; new learning; trauma memory

Indexed keywords

EID: 70449702595     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-60327-329-9_5     Document Type: Chapter

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