Hair cortisol as a biomarker of traumatization in healthy individuals and posttraumatic stress disorder patients

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 74, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 639-646

  Steudte, Susann ^a   Kirschbaum, Clemens ^a   Gao, Wei ^a,b   Alexander, Nina ^a   Schönfeld, Sabine ^a   Hoyer, Jürgen ^a   Stalder, Tobias ^a  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b Southeast University   (China)

Author keywords

Cortisol; hair; LC MS MS; posttraumatic stress disorder; saliva; traumatization

Indexed keywords

HYDROCORTISONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE MARKER; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HAIR ANALYSIS; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HUMAN; INJURY; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; SALIVA ANALYSIS; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY;

CORTISOL; HAIR; LC-MS/MS; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; SALIVA; TRAUMATIZATION;

ADULT; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; FEMALE; HAIR; HEALTH; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; SALIVA; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84885434858     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: 18732402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2013.03.011     Document Type: Article

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