Heart rate after trauma and the specificity of fear circuitry disorders

Psychological Medicine

Volumn 41, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 2573-2580

  Bryant, R A ^a   Creamer, M ^b   O'Donnell, M ^b   Silove, D ^a   McFarlane, A C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Anxiety; fear circuitry; fear conditioning; heart rate; PTSD

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGORAPHOBIA; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; FEAR; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; INJURY; INJURY SCALE; MALE; PANIC; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHOBIA; PHYSIOLOGY; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; ANXIETY DISORDERS; PANIC DISORDER; PHOBIC DISORDERS; PSYCHOLOGY; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

ADULT; AGORAPHOBIA; ANXIETY DISORDERS; FEAR; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; MALE; PANIC DISORDER; PHOBIC DISORDERS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 84857334297     PISSN: 00332917     EISSN: 14698978     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0033291711000948     Document Type: Article

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