On comparing competing models of PTSD: Response to Simms

Journal of Traumatic Stress

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 642-644

  Miller, Mark W ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

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EID: 77958615693     PISSN: 08949867     EISSN: 15736598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jts.20561     Document Type: Note

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