Directed forgetting in post-traumatic-stress-disorder: A study of refugee immigrants in Germany

Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue JUL, 2013, Pages

  Baumann, Michaela ^a   Zwissler, Bastian ^a,b   Schalinski, Inga ^a   Ruf Leuschner, Martina ^a   Schauer, Maggie ^a   Kissler, Johanna ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Directed forgetting; Dissociation; Emotion; Posttraumatic stress disorder

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIRECTED FORGETTING; DISSOCIATIVE DISORDER; DISSOCIATIVE EXPERIENCES SCALE; EMOTIONAL STRESS; EPISODIC MEMORY; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; MENTAL TASK; NEUROMODULATION; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; RECOGNITION; REFUGEE; SCORING SYSTEM; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 84880141205     PISSN: 16625153     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnbeh.2013.00094     Document Type: Article

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