Deployment-acquired TBI and suicidality: Risk and assessment

War and Suicide

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 189-202

  Brenner, Lisa A ^a,b   Homaifar, Beeta Y ^a,b  

^a VA VISN 19 Mental Illness Research Education and Clinical Center   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

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