Psychiatric diagnoses among Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans screened for deployment-related traumatic brain injury

Journal of Traumatic Stress

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 17-24

  Carlson, Kathleen F ^a   Nelson, David ^a   Orazem, Robert J ^b   Nugent, Sean ^b   Cifu, David X ^c   Sayer, Nina A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; COMORBIDITY; FACTUAL DATABASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; UNITED STATES; VETERAN; WAR;

ADULT; AFGHAN CAMPAIGN 2001-; BRAIN INJURIES; COMORBIDITY; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IRAQ WAR, 2003 -; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; UNITED STATES; VETERANS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77149128958     PISSN: 08949867     EISSN: 15736598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jts.20483     Document Type: Article

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