Propranolol use in the prevention and treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder in military veterans: Forgetting therapy revisited

Perspectives in Biology and Medicine

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 61-74

  Donovan, Elise ^a  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; PROPRANOLOL;

ARTICLE; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; DRUG EFFECT; HUMAN; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEMORY; MEMORY DISORDER; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SELF CONCEPT; SOLDIER; VETERAN; WAR;

ADRENERGIC BETA-ANTAGONISTS; ETHICS, CLINICAL; HUMANS; MEMORY; MEMORY DISORDERS; MILITARY PERSONNEL; PROPRANOLOL; SELF CONCEPT; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; VETERANS; WAR;

EID: 77950116598     PISSN: 00315982     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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