Mild traumatic brain injury (concussion), posttraumatic stress disorder, and depression in U.S. soldiers involved in combat deployments: Association with postdeployment symptoms

Psychosomatic Medicine

Volumn 74, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 249-257

  Wilk, Joshua E ^a   Herrell, Richard K ^a   Wynn, Gary H ^a   Riviere, Lyndon A ^a   Hoge, Charles W ^a  

^a U S ARMY MEDICAL RESEARCH AND MATERIEL COMMAND   (United States)

Author keywords

combat; concussion; deployment; depression; PTSD

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFGHANISTAN; ARMY; ARTICLE; BACKACHE; BALANCE DISORDER; BRAIN CONCUSSION; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CONCUSSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DIZZINESS; DYSPNEA; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; IRAQ; IRRITABILITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEMORY DISORDER; MILITARY DEPLOYMENT; NAUSEA; POSTTRAUMATIC HEADACHE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SLEEP DISORDER; SOLDIER; STOMACH PAIN; THORAX PAIN; UNCONSCIOUSNESS; UNITED STATES; VETERANS HEALTH;

EID: 84859710764     PISSN: 00333174     EISSN: 15347796     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PSY.0b013e318244c604     Document Type: Article

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