The impact of head injury mechanism on mental health symptoms in veterans: Do number and type of exposures matter?

Journal of Traumatic Stress

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 3-9

  Maguen, Shira ^a,b   Madden, Erin ^a   Lau, Karen M ^a   Seal, Karen ^a,c  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MENTAL DISEASE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RISK; UNITED STATES; VETERAN; WAR;

ADULT; AFGHAN CAMPAIGN 2001-; ALCOHOLISM; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FEMALE; HUMANS; IRAQ WAR, 2003 -; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MENTAL DISORDERS; ODDS RATIO; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; UNITED STATES; VETERANS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84857348123     PISSN: 08949867     EISSN: 15736598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jts.21669     Document Type: Article

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