Bio-Behavioral consequences of traumatic stress in childhood and adolescence: The effects of war on children's mental health, growth and development

War and Suicide

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 157-171

  Pervanidou, Panagiota ^a,b   Kolaitis, Gerasimos ^a,b   Chrousos, George P ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^b AGHIA SOPHIA CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Greece)

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