PTSD Brain Mechanisms and Clinical Implications /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Kato, Nobumasa (Editor), Kawata, Mitsuhiro (Editor), Pitman, Roger K. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Tokyo : Springer Japan, 2006.
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Psychiatry.; Psychopharmacology.; Behavioral sciences.; Neurobiology.; Life Sciences.; Behavioral Sciences.

Recent catastrophic events, such as the attack on the New York World Trade Center and the devastating tsunami in the Indian Ocean, have drawn increasing attention to post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD. Once thought of only in psychological terms, PTSD has emerged as the model mental disorder fo...