The role of emotional numbing in sexual functioning among veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars

Military Medicine

Volumn 175, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 424-428

  Nunnink, Sarah E ^a,b,c   Goldwaser, Gali ^b   Afari, Niloofar ^a,b,c   Nievergelt, Caroline M ^a,c   Baker, Dewleen G ^a,b,c  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b VA SAN DIEGO HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REPRODUCTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOLDIER; UNITED STATES; VETERAN; WAR;

ADULT; AFGHAN CAMPAIGN 2001-; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IRAQ WAR, 2003 -; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MILITARY PERSONNEL; PREVALENCE; REPRODUCTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; UNITED STATES; VETERANS;

EID: 77953278546     PISSN: 00264075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7205/MILMED-D-09-00085     Document Type: Article

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