Cortisol awakening response prospectively predicts peritraumatic and acute stress reactions in police officers

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 70, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1055-1062

  Inslicht, Sabra S ^a,b   Otte, Christian ^d   McCaslin, Shannon E ^a,b   Apfel, Brigitte A ^a,b   Henn Haase, Clare ^e   Metzler, Thomas ^a,c   Yehuda, Rachel ^f   Neylan, Thomas C ^a,b   Marmar, Charles R ^e  

^a SAN FRANCISCO VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c NORTHERN CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH AND EDUCATION   (United States)

^d CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^e NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute stress disorder; cortisol; peritraumatic dissociation; police stress; posttraumatic stress disorder

Indexed keywords

HYDROCORTISONE;

ACUTE STRESS DISORDER; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRITICAL INCIDENT STRESS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MALE; POLICE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRAINING;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; LINEAR MODELS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; POLICE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; SALIVA; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TIME FACTORS; WAKEFULNESS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80255136205     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: 18732402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2011.06.030     Document Type: Article

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