Social cognition disorders in military police officers affected by posttraumatic stress disorder after the attack of An-Nasiriyah in Iraq 2006

Psychiatry Research

Volumn 198, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 248-252

  Mazza, Monica ^a   Giusti, Laura ^a   Albanese, Anna ^b   Mariano, Melania ^a   Pino, Maria Chiara ^a   Roncone, Rita ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

^b Military Police Force   (Italy)

Author keywords

Emotional numbing; Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD); Social cognition

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DEPRESSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMOTIONAL STABILITY; EMOTIONALITY; HUMAN; IRAQ; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SOCIAL COGNITION; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOLDIER;

ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COGNITION DISORDERS; EMOTIONS; HUMANS; IRAQ WAR, 2003 - 2011; MILITARY PERSONNEL; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; POLICE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR DISORDERS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; THEORY OF MIND;

EID: 84868110591     PISSN: 01651781     EISSN: 18727123     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psychres.2011.11.027     Document Type: Article

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