Prolonged Exposure Therapy for a Vietnam Veteran With PTSD and Early-Stage Dementia

Cognitive and Behavioral Practice

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 64-73

  Duax, Jeanne M ^a   Waldron Perrine, Brigid ^a   Rauch, Sheila A M ^a,b   Adams, Kenneth M ^a,b  

^a Veterans Administration   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Dementia; Evidence based treatment; Prolonged exposure therapy; PTSD

Indexed keywords

DONEPEZIL; SERTRALINE;

AGED; AMNESIA; ARTICLE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; BALANCE DISORDER; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COGNITIVE THERAPY; COMORBIDITY; DEMENTIA; DEPRESSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG DOSE TITRATION; FOLLOW UP; GAIT DISORDER; HUMAN; LEWY BODY; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PARKINSONISM; PERSONALITY DISORDER; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROLONGED EXPOSURE THERAPY; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; SLEEP DISORDER; VETERAN; VIET NAM;

EID: 84872272002     PISSN: 10777229     EISSN: 1878187X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpra.2012.02.001     Document Type: Article

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