Combat-related post-traumatic stress disorder: A case report using virtual reality graded exposure therapy with physiological monitoring with a female Seabee

Military Medicine

Volumn 174, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1215-1222

  Wood, Dennis Patrick ^a   Webb Murphy, Jennifer ^b   Center, Kristy ^a   Mclay, Robert ^b   Koffman, Robert ^c   Johnston, Scott ^b   Spira, James ^a   Pyne, Jeffrey M ^d   Wiederhold, Brenda K ^a  

^a VIRTUAL REALITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NAVAL MEDICAL CENTER SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^c Bureau of Medicine and Surgery   (United States)

^d CENTRAL ARKANSAS VETERANS HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MONITORING; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; WAR;

ADULT; COMBAT DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMPLOSIVE THERAPY; IRAQ WAR, 2003 -; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

EID: 75349102662     PISSN: 00264075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7205/MILMED-D-03-4408     Document Type: Article

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