Fear conditioning and early life vulnerabilities: two distinct pathways of emotional dysregulation and brain dysfunction in PTSD

The newly proposed criteria for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM-V) include dysregulation of a variety of emotional states including fear, anger, guilt, and shame, in addition to dissociation and numbing. Consistent with these revisions, we postulate...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Lanius, Ruth A., Frewen, Paul A., Vermetten, Eric, Yehuda, Rachel
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Co-Action Publishing 2010
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3401986/