Investigation of automatic avoidance in displaced individuals with chronic Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

Psychiatry Research

Volumn 228, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 887-893

  Wittekind, Charlotte E ^a   Behmer, Friederike ^a   Muhtz, Christoph ^a   Fritzsche, Anja ^b   Moritz, Steffen ^a   Jelinek, Lena ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Approach Avoidance Task; Behavioral tendencies; Displacement; Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

Indexed keywords

AGED; ALERTNESS; APPROACH AVOIDANCE TASK; ARTICLE; AUTOMATIC AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIOR ASSESSMENT; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; CHRONIC STRESS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISPLACEMENT BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION; AROUSAL; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; CHILD; COHORT ANALYSIS; GERMANY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PSYCHOLOGY; REACTION TIME; REFERENCE VALUE; REFUGEE; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; WAR;

AGED; AROUSAL; ATTENTION; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; CHILD; COHORT STUDIES; CUES; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; REACTION TIME; REFERENCE VALUES; REFUGEES; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; WORLD WAR II;

EID: 84938740542     PISSN: 01651781     EISSN: 18727123     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psychres.2015.05.003     Document Type: Article

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