New avenues for treating emotional memory disorders: towards a reconsolidation intervention for posttraumatic stress disorder

Therapeutic Advances in Psychopharmacology

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 283-295

  Kindt, Merel ^a   van Emmerik, Arnold ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Propranolol; PTSD; Reconsolidation

Indexed keywords

PROPRANOLOL;

ADULT; ALCOHOL ABUSE; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ALCOHOLISM; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; CASE REPORT; COGNITIVE BEHAVIORAL THERAPY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DEPRESSION; DRUG TREATMENT FAILURE; EMOTIONAL DISORDER; FEMALE; HUMAN; MEMORY DISORDER; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOTHERAPY; REVIEW; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT RESPONSE; VISUAL HALLUCINATION;

EID: 85011372200     PISSN: 20451253     EISSN: 20451261     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/2045125316644541     Document Type: Review

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