A plea for symptom-based research in psychiatry

European Journal of Psychotraumatology

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Schmidt, Ulrike ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF PSYCHIATRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Posttraumatic stress disorder; PTSD subtypes; PTSD subtyping; RDoC; Subclinical PTSD; Subsyndromal PTSD; Subthreshold PTSD; Symptom based research

Indexed keywords

EID: 84977080754     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20008066     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3402/ejpt.v6.27660     Document Type: Article

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