Overgeneral autobiographical memory recollection in Iranian combat veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder

Behaviour Research and Therapy

Volumn 50, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 435-441

  Moradi, Ali Reza ^a   Abdi, Ahmad ^a   Fathi Ashtiani, Ali ^b   Dalgleish, Tim ^c   Jobson, Laura ^d  

^a KHARAZMI UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b BAQIYATALLAH UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Autobiographical memory; Culture; Overgeneral memory; Posttraumatic stress disorder

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL MEMORY; AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL MEMORY INTERVIEW; AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL MEMORY TEST; BECK DEPRESSION INVENTORY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPISODIC MEMORY; ETHNIC GROUP; HUMAN; IMPACT OF EVENTS SCALE; IRANIAN; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MEMORY DISORDER; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOTRAUMA; SEMANTIC MEMORY; SURVIVOR; VETERAN; WECHSLER INTELLIGENCE SCALE; WECHSLER MEMORY SCALE; WORKING MEMORY;

ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COMBAT DISORDERS; HUMANS; IRAN; MALE; MEMORY, EPISODIC; MENTAL RECALL; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; VETERANS;

EID: 84860588362     PISSN: 00057967     EISSN: 1873622X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brat.2012.03.009     Document Type: Article

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