Lifetime history of traumatic events in an American Indian community sample: Heritability and relation to substance dependence, affective disorder, conduct disorder and PTSD

Journal of Psychiatric Research

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 155-161

  Ehlers, Cindy L ^a   Gizer, Ian R ^b   Gilder, David A ^a   Yehuda, Rachael ^c  

^a SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^c MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

American Indian; PTSD; Substance dependence; Trauma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMERICAN INDIAN; ARTICLE; ASSAULT; COMORBIDITY; CONDUCT DISORDER; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOOD DISORDER; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPATHY; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; SEXUAL ABUSE; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; SYMPTOM;

EID: 84871502715     PISSN: 00223956     EISSN: 18791379     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpsychires.2012.10.002     Document Type: Article

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