Simultaneous treatment of neurocognitive and psychiatric symptoms in veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder and history of mild traumatic brain injury: A pilot study of mindfulness-based stress reduction

Military Medicine

Volumn 180, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 956-963

  Cole, Michael A ^a,b,c   Muir, James J ^a   Gans, Jennifer J ^a,d   Shin, Lisa M ^e   D’Esposito, Mark ^a,c   Harel, Brian T ^f,g   Schembri, Adrian ^f,h  

^a VA NORTHERN CALIFORNIA HEALTH CARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f Cogstate Inc ^*  (United States)

^g YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^h RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ATTENTION; BRAIN CONCUSSION; HUMAN; MIDDLE AGED; MINDFULNESS; NEUROCOGNITIVE DISORDERS; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PILOT STUDY; PSYCHOLOGY; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; SYMPTOM ASSESSMENT; VETERAN;

ADULT; ATTENTION; BRAIN CONCUSSION; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MINDFULNESS; NEUROCOGNITIVE DISORDERS; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PILOT PROJECTS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; SYMPTOM ASSESSMENT; VETERANS;

EID: 84943567368     PISSN: 00264075     EISSN: 1930613X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7205/MILMED-D-14-00581     Document Type: Article

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