Post-traumatic stress disorder and declarative memory functioning: A review

Dialogues in Clinical Neuroscience

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 346-351

  Samuelson, Kristin W ^a,b  

^a ALLIANT INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Hippocampus; Neuropsychology; PTSD; Trauma; Verbal memory

Indexed keywords

N ACETYLASPARTIC ACID;

ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; CHILD ABUSE; COMORBIDITY; DECLARATIVE MEMORY; DEPRESSION; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; HIPPOCAMPUS; HOLOCAUST; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; MEMORY DISORDER; MENTAL PATIENT; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RAPE; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; VERBAL MEMORY; VIOLENCE; VISUAL MEMORY; WORD RECOGNITION; WORKING MEMORY; ANIMAL; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; MEMORY DISORDERS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

EID: 82255162413     PISSN: 12948322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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