Correspondence; linking hair cortisol levels to phenotypic heterogeneity of posttraumatic stress symptoms in highly traumatized chinese women

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 77, Issue 4, 2015, Pages e21-e22

  Wang, Li ^a   Cao, Chengqi ^a,b   Wang, Weiwen ^a,b   Xu, Hang ^a   Zhang, Jianxin ^a   Deng, Huihua ^a,c   Zhang, Xiangyang ^a,d  

^a INSTITUTE OF PSYCHOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROCORTISONE;

ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY; AROUSAL; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; CENTER FOR EPIDEMIOLOGICAL STUDIES DEPRESSION SCALE; CHECKLIST; CHINESE; DEPRESSION; DYSPHORIA; EARTHQUAKE; EMOTIONAL DISORDER; FEMALE; HAIR LEVEL; HUMAN; LETTER; LIMIT OF DETECTION; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER CHECKLIST SPECIFIC STRESSSOR VERSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVOR; SYMPTOM ASSESSMENT; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; HAIR; MALE; METABOLISM;

FEMALE; HAIR; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; MALE; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

EID: 84922505467     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: 18732402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2014.05.026     Document Type: Letter

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