Postraumatic stress disorders (PTSD) between fallacy and facts: What we know and what we don't know?

Psychiatria Danubina

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 241-245

  Jakovljević, Miro ^a   Brajković, Lovorka ^a   Lončar, Mladen ^a   Čima, Ana ^a  

^a KBC Zagreb   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Concepts; Facts and meta facts; PTSD

Indexed keywords

BRAIN REGION; COMORBIDITY; DSM-IV-TR; HUMAN; ICD-10; LIFE EVENT; MEMORY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOTRAUMA; REVIEW; SEX DIFFERENCE; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; COPING BEHAVIOR; MENTAL STRESS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RISK FACTOR;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; RESILIENCE, PSYCHOLOGICAL; RISK FACTORS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84867817967     PISSN: 03535053     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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