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Fatty-acid amide hydrolase polymorphisms and post-traumatic stress disorder after penetrating brain injury.
Translational psychiatry - 31 Jan 2012
Pardini M, Krueger F, Koenigs M, Raymont V, Hodgkinson C, Zoubak S, Goldman D, Grafman J
Abstract excerpt
The past few years have seen an increase in the clinical awareness of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), one of the most disabling and least understood behavioral disorders. Although the biological bases of PTSD are poorly understood, fatty-acid amide hydrolase (FAAH) activity has been linked with arousability and aversive-memories extinction, that is, two key features of PTSD. In this study, we investigated...
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