Mental Health Weekly Digest
Welcome to NewsRx!
Learn more about a six-week, no-risk free trial of Mental Health Weekly Digest
We're a pay-per-view site for premium content. If you'd like to purchase this article, it's only $3.00.
Anxiety Disorders
New anxiety disorders research has been reported by scientists at University of Bergen
June 18th, 2007
New research, "Executive deficits in chronic PTSD related to political violence," is the subject of a report. "Twenty-two subjects with chronic PTSD were compared to 23 subjects with no diagnoses (NPD) on tests of executive functioning (EF) that are assumed to have clinical significance after exposure to political violence. The three cognitive components of EF, intentionality, inhibition and executive memory [Burgess, P. W., Alderman, N., Evans, J., Emslie, H., Wilson, B. A. (1998)," scientists in Bergen, Norway report. "The ecological validity of tests of executive function. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 4, 547-58], were measured using the...
Source: Mental Health Weekly Digest (2007-06-18)
|
