Genetic approaches to understanding post-traumatic stress disorder
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Genetic approaches to understanding post-traumatic stress disorder.
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is increasingly recognized as both a disorder of enormous mental health and societal burden, but also as an anxiety disorder that may be particularly understandable from a scientific perspective. Specifically, PTSD can be conceptualized as a disorder of fear and stress dysregulation, and the neural circuitry underlying these pathways in both animals and hum...
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عنوان ژورنال: The International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1461-1457,1469-5111
DOI: 10.1017/s1461145713001090