Hurtful words: Association of exposure to peer verbal abuse with elevated psychiatric symptom scores and corpus callosum abnormalities

American Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 167, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1464-1471

  Teicher, Martin H ^a   Samson, Jacqueline A ^a   Sheu, Yi Shin ^a   Polcari, Ann ^a   McGreenery, Cynthia E ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADULTHOOD; ANGER; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DEPRESSION; DISSOCIATIVE DISORDER; DRUG USE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IRRITABILITY; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; NEUROANATOMY; PEER GROUP; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VERBAL HOSTILITY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANISOTROPY; BULLYING; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; PARENTS; PEER GROUP;

EID: 78649729078     PISSN: 0002953X     EISSN: 15357228     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1176/appi.ajp.2010.10010030     Document Type: Article

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