Complicated grief in those bereaved by violent death: The effects of post-traumatic stress disorder on complicated grief

Dialogues in Clinical Neuroscience

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 210-214

  Nakajima, Satomi ^a   Ito, Masaya ^a,b   Shirai, Akemi ^c   Konishi, Takako ^d  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

^c INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH AND WELFARE   (Japan)

^d MUSASHINO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Brain function; Complicated grief; Post traumatic stress disorder; Traumatic loss; Violent death

Indexed keywords

ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; BEREAVEMENT; COMORBIDITY; COMPLICATED GRIEF; DEATH; GRIEF; HOMICIDE; HUMAN; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREVALENCE; SOCIAL STRESS; VIOLENCE; VIOLENT DEATH;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADJUSTMENT DISORDERS; BEREAVEMENT; GRIEF; HUMANS; PREVALENCE; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; VIOLENCE;

EID: 84869422231     PISSN: 12948322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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