Journal articleInt J Methods Psychiatr Res · June 2026
OBJECTIVES: For 20 years, the National Child Traumatic Stress Network's (NCTSN) data collection efforts have been a central mechanism for Clinical Quality Improvement (ClQI). The NCTSN is a federally funded initiative in the United States composed of progr ...
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Journal articlePsychol Trauma · August 2024
INTRODUCTION: The number of unaccompanied children (UC) arriving in the United States has increased significantly in recent years. UC often encounter traumatic events in their home country, during their migration journey, and upon resettlement. This articl ...
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Journal articleSocial Development · February 1, 2024
Military separation is a well-documented vulnerability point for service members, yet little is known regarding how children fare across this transition. The current study examined 909 military-connected children from the Millennium Cohort Family Study (Wa ...
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Journal articleSleep Adv · 2023
STUDY OBJECTIVES: The purpose of this study was to (1) estimate trauma associated sleep disorder (TASD) prevalence among post-9/11 era veterans and to describe differences in service and comorbid mental health clinical characteristics among individuals wit ...
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Journal articleMil Behav Health · 2023
Warzone deployment increases risk for posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms (PTSS), including among service members who have children. Parental PTSS are associated with child depression, anxiety, hyperactivity, and conduct problems, yet few studies of chi ...
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Journal articleEur J Psychotraumatol · 2022
BACKGROUND: Historically, resilience has often been conceptualized as the sustained lack of symptoms following trauma exposure. In line with a novel conceptualization of resilience as being dynamic over lifespan, determined by interacting biological and en ...
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Journal articleSuicide and Life Threatening Behavior · December 1, 2021
Objective: To determine in veterans whether severity of combat exposure was predictive of subsequently receiving a suicide risk assessment (SRA), and whether this relationship was meditated by depression symptomatology. Method: We conducted an electronic m ...
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Journal articleJ Psychiatr Res · June 2021
Suicidal ideation (SI) is a prevalent issue in the veteran population. A number of factors have been identified as risk factors for suicidal ideation (SI) in veterans, including suicide attempts, depression, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and drug u ...
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Journal articleJ Psychiatr Res · June 2021
An association has been found between cannabis use disorder (CUD) and violence in several clinical populations, including veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and there is evidence that CUD has been increasing among veterans since September ...
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Journal articleClin Psychol Psychother · January 2021
Moral injury merits further study to clarify its identification, prevalence, assessment and intersection with psychosocial and psychiatric problems. The present study investigated the screening potential of the Brief Moral Injury Screen (BMIS) in a sample ...
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Journal articleFront Neurosci · 2021
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a complex psychiatric disorder that can develop following exposure to traumatic events. The Psychiatric Genomics Consortium PTSD group (PGC-PTSD) has collected over 20,000 multi-ethnic PTSD cases and controls and has ...
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Journal articleNat Commun · November 24, 2020
Epigenetic differences may help to distinguish between PTSD cases and trauma-exposed controls. Here, we describe the results of the largest DNA methylation meta-analysis of PTSD to date. Ten cohorts, military and civilian, contribute blood-derived DNA meth ...
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Journal articleJournal of Family Issues · November 2020
Maintaining a healthy marriage may be challenging for military couples as they attempt to balance the demands of work and family; for dual-military couples, this can be even more challenging. Using data from the Millennium Cohort Family Study, we e ...
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Journal articlePsychol Serv · August 2020
Ongoing and comprehensive assessment is a critical part of the implementation of evidence-based care; yet, most providers fail to routinely incorporate measurement into their clinical practice. Few studies have focused on the complex application of routine ...
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Journal articleNeuropsychopharmacology · July 2020
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) may develop when mechanisms for making accurate distinctions about threat relevance have gone awry. Generalization across conceptually related objects has been hypothesized based on clinical observation in PTSD, but the ...
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Journal articleJ Child Adolesc Trauma · March 2020
Families experience multiple stressors as a result of military service. The purpose of this study was to examine facets of military life and family factors that may impact child psychosocial and mental health functioning. Using baseline data from the Mille ...
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Journal articleBiol Psychiatry Cogn Neurosci Neuroimaging · March 2020
BACKGROUND: The amygdala is a subcortical structure involved in socioemotional and associative fear learning processes relevant for understanding the mechanisms of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Research in animals indicates that the amygdala is a h ...
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Journal articleNeuropsychopharmacology · February 2020
Combat-exposed Veterans are at increased risk for developing psychological distress, mood disorders, and trauma and stressor-related disorders. Trauma and mood disorders have been linked to alterations in brain volume, function, and connectivity. However, ...
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Journal articleBMC Public Health · November 12, 2019
BACKGROUND: The health and well-being of military spouses directly contribute to a robust military force by enabling the spouse to better support the active duty member's career. In order to understand the overall health and well-being of military spouses, ...
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Journal articleWomens Health Issues · June 25, 2019
BACKGROUND: Chronic pain conditions are common among both male and female Iraq/Afghanistan-era veterans and can have substantial negative impacts on quality of life and function. Although in general women tend to report higher levels of pain intensity than ...
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Journal articlePsychol Serv · May 2019
This study evaluated whether a history of traumatic brain injury (TBI) was associated with increased risk for recent suicidal ideation (SI) after accounting for demographics, depression, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and sleep quality. In terms of ...
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Journal articlePsychiatry Res · April 2019
Around half of Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans with traumatic brain injury (TBI) have co-occurring posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Research on the differences between male and female veterans with co-occurring PTSD/TBI is sparse. This study evaluat ...
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Journal articleAddict Behav · March 2019
AIMS: Compared to the general U.S. population, military veterans and those living in rural areas disproportionately smoke cigarettes at higher rates, leading to increased health consequences. In the current study, prevalence and severity of cigarette smoki ...
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Journal articlePsychiatry · 2019
Objective: To evaluate potential differences in therapeutic outcomes between youths who completed a full course of treatment as planned compared to youths who terminated treatment prematurely. Method: Using longitudinal data from the National Child Traumat ...
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Journal articleEur J Psychotraumatol · 2019
Objective: Although Combat exposure is associated with a range of psychiatric outcomes, many veterans do not develop psychopathology. Resilience is a multifaceted construct associated with reduced risk of distress and psychopathology; however, few studies ...
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Journal articleAm Psychol · 2019
The American Psychological Association (APA) developed a clinical practice guideline (CPG) to provide recommendations on psychological and pharmacological treatments for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in adults. This paper is a summary of the CPG, in ...
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Journal articleArch Phys Med Rehabil · December 2018
OBJECTIVE: To characterize behavioral and health outcomes in veterans with traumatic brain injury (TBI) acquired in nondeployment and deployment settings. DESIGN: Cross-sectional assessment evaluating TBI acquired during and outside of deployment, mental a ...
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Journal articleJ Dev Behav Pediatr · December 2018
OBJECTIVE: Families experience multiple stressors as a result of military service. The purpose of this study was to investigate the associations among service member deployment experiences, family and military factors, and children's mental health using ba ...
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Journal articleJAMA Netw Open · November 2, 2018
IMPORTANCE: Being exposed to trauma is a common childhood experience associated with symptoms and impairments in childhood. OBJECTIVE: To assess the association between cumulative childhood trauma exposure and adult psychiatric and functional outcomes. DES ...
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Journal articleMil Med · September 1, 2018
INTRODUCTION: In response to a strong focus on suicide prevention for all veterans, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) recently revised policy to provide emergency mental healthcare for veterans who received Other Than Honorable (OTH) discharges from ...
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Journal articleDepress Anxiety · September 2018
BACKGROUND: Approximately half of US service members are married, equating to 1.1 million military spouses, yet the prevalence of psychiatric morbidity among military spouses remains understudied. We assessed the prevalence and correlates of eight mental h ...
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Journal articleAdm Policy Ment Health · July 2018
This article examines the public safety rationale for a federal policy of prohibiting gun sales to veterans with psychiatric disabilities who are assigned a fiduciary to manage their benefits from the Department of Veterans Affairs. The policy was evaluate ...
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Journal articleJ Stud Alcohol Drugs · July 2018
OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to examine among veterans (a) whether alcohol consumption patterns are associated with probability of psychiatric symptoms and (b) whether an alcohol use disorder (AUD) history explains psychiatric symptoms among nondrinkers. ME ...
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Journal articlePsychol Assess · April 2018
Suicide and violence are significant problems in a subset of Iraq/Afghanistan-era veterans. This study investigates how posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and resilience in veterans are associated with suicidal ideation and violent impulses while control ...
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Journal articleFront Psychiatry · 2018
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a prevalent, chronic disorder with high psychiatric morbidity; however, a substantial portion of affected individuals experience remission after onset. Alterations in brain network topology derived from cortical thic ...
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Journal articleEur J Psychotraumatol · 2018
Background: The term resilience is applied in numerous ways in the mental health field, leading to different perspectives of what constitutes a resilient response and disparate findings regarding its prevalence following trauma. Objective: illustrate the i ...
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Journal articleRehabil Psychol · November 2017
OBJECTIVE: Sleep disturbance is a key behavioral health concern among Iraq and Afghanistan era veterans and is a frequent complaint among veterans with a history of mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI). Currently, it is unclear whether sleep disturbance is a ...
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Journal articlePain Med · September 1, 2017
OBJECTIVE: To examine pain symptoms and co-occurring psychiatric and functional indices in male and female Iraq/Afghanistan-era veterans. DESIGN: Self-reported data collection and interviews of Iraq/Afghanistan-era veterans who participated in a multisite ...
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Journal articleInt J Methods Psychiatr Res · September 2017
The United States (US) Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Mid-Atlantic Mental Illness Research, Education, and Clinical Center (MIRECC) Post-Deployment Mental Health (PDMH) multi-site study examines post-deployment mental health in US military Afghanistan ...
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Journal articleBMC Med Res Methodol · April 26, 2017
BACKGROUND: Previous research has found that a "web-push" approach to data collection, which involves contacting people by mail to request an Internet survey response while withholding a paper response option until later in the contact process, consistentl ...
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Journal articlePediatrics · April 2017
Children who have suffered early abuse or neglect may later present with significant health and behavior problems that may persist long after the abusive or neglectful environment has been remediated. Neurobiological research suggests that early maltreatme ...
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Journal articlePsychiatry Res · June 30, 2016
Research in both civilian and military populations has demonstrated that females who experience childhood sexual abuse (CSA) are more likely to experience sexual assault in adulthood than females who did not experience CSA. Among veteran samples, however, ...
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Journal articlePain Med · January 2016
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Pain symptoms are common among Iraq/Afghanistan-era veterans, many of whom continue to experience persistent pain symptoms despite multiple pharmacological interventions. Preclinical data suggest that neurosteroids such as allopr ...
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Journal articleJ Rehabil Res Dev · 2016
Female Veterans are the most rapidly growing segment of new users of the Veterans Health Administration (VHA), and a significant proportion of female Veterans receiving treatment from VHA primary care providers report persistent pain symptoms. Currently, a ...
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Journal articleTransl Psychiatry · December 15, 2015
Fear conditioning is an established model for investigating posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). However, symptom triggers may vaguely resemble the initial traumatic event, differing on a variety of sensory and affective dimensions. We extended the fear-c ...
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Journal articlePsychol Serv · November 2015
Despite research findings that similar numbers of male and female veterans are affected by military sexual trauma (MST), there has been considerably less research on the effects of MST specific to male veterans. The aim of the present study was to provide ...
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Journal articlePsychiatry Res · September 30, 2015
The present study examined the association between genetic variation in the nicotinic receptor gene family (CHRNA2, CHRNA3, CHRNA4, CHRNA5, CHRNA6, CHRNA7, CHRNA9, CHRNA10, CHRNB2, CHRNB3, CHRNB4) and the occurrence of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). ...
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Journal articleDrug Alcohol Depend · July 1, 2015
BACKGROUND: The current study was undertaken to examine whether posttraumatic stress symptoms (PTSS) and depressive symptoms mediated the association between trauma exposure (combat-related trauma and non-combat traumas occurring before, during, and after ...
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Journal articleInt J Methods Psychiatr Res · June 2015
Military deployment may adversely affect not only returning veterans, but their families, as well. As a result, researchers have increasingly focused on identifying risk and protective factors for successful family adaptation to war-zone deployment, re-int ...
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Journal articleN C Med J · 2015
This commentary describes the prevalence of mental health problems affecting military service members and veterans in North Carolina and the rest of the nation, with a special emphasis on those who served in the recent wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Approxi ...
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Journal articlePsychiatry Res · December 15, 2014
The present research examined how incarceration, suicide attempts, suicidality, and difficulty controlling violence relate to the underlying factor structure of psychiatric comorbidity among a large sample of Iraq/Afghanistan-era veterans (N=1897). Diagnos ...
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Journal articleJ Psychiatr Res · December 2014
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a significant problem among Iraq/Afghanistan-era veterans. To date, however, there has been only limited research on how the recent changes in DSM-5 influence the prevalence and factor structure of PTSD. To address t ...
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Journal articleInt J Methods Psychiatr Res · September 2014
The need to understand the impact of war on military families has never been greater than during the past decade, with more than three million military spouses and children affected by deployments to Operations Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom. Understan ...
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Journal articlePsychiatry Res · June 30, 2014
This study aimed to examine the degree to which posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) affects the relationship between social support and psychological distress for U.S. Afghanistan/Iraq era veterans with and without co-occurring psychiatric disorders. Vete ...
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Journal articleMil Med · May 2014
Veteran populations are exposed to multiple stressful events, and suicidality among veterans is a serious problem. Identifying biomarkers of suicidality may enhance detection, prevention, and treatment. Multiple neurotransmitter systems are implicated in t ...
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Journal articleJ Interpers Violence · February 2014
The study objectives were to (a) examine the association between total number of trauma types experienced and child/adolescent behavioral problems and (b) determine whether the number of trauma types experienced predicted youth behavioral problems above an ...
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Journal articleNeuropsychopharmacology · January 2014
The amygdala is a major structure that orchestrates defensive reactions to environmental threats and is implicated in hypervigilance and symptoms of heightened arousal in posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The basolateral and centromedial amygdala (CMA) ...
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Journal articleJ Affect Disord · January 2014
BACKGROUND: Most research on women veterans' mental health has focused on postraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) or reactions to military sexual trauma. Although depression is also a frequent diagnosis among women veterans, little is known about its character ...
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Journal articleClin Child Fam Psychol Rev · December 2013
Community dwelling military families from the National Guard and Reserve contend with deployment-related stressors in relative isolation, living in communities where mental health providers may have little knowledge of military culture. When they are commu ...
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Journal articleDrug Alcohol Depend · December 1, 2013
BACKGROUND: The present study examined lifespan and combat-related trauma exposure as predictors of alcohol use among male and female veterans. Posttraumatic stress and depressive symptoms were examined as mediators of the effects of trauma exposure on alc ...
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Journal articleHum Brain Mapp · November 2013
Mild traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a common source of morbidity from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. With no overt lesions on structural MRI, diagnosis of chronic mild TBI in military veterans relies on obtaining an accurate history and assessment of b ...
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Journal articleSleep · July 1, 2013
STUDY OBJECTIVES: Short and long sleep duration have been linked with higher rates of comorbid medical and mental health issues, as well as increased mortality. The current study examined the association between sleep duration, mental health problems, and ...
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Journal articlePsychological Trauma Theory Research Practice and Policy · March 1, 2013
The National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN) is a federally funded child mental health service initiative designed to raise the standard of care and increase access to evidence-based services for traumatized children and their families across the Un ...
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Journal articleAdm Policy Ment Health · May 2012
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Empirically supported treatments for posttraumatic stress reactions in children are not widely available. This observational study evaluates the feasibility and utility of adapting the Institute for Healthcare's Breakthrough Series Collaborative (BSC) to s ...
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Journal articleJournal of Child and Adolescent Trauma · January 1, 2012
Given the high prevalence rates of trauma exposure in youth in residential treatment, evidence-based guidelines are needed to identify youth most likely to benefit from this setting. We examined trauma exposure, functional impairments, and treatment outcom ...
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Journal articlePsychological Trauma Theory Research Practice and Policy · December 1, 2011
On April 16, 2007, in the worst campus shooting incident in U.S. history, 49 students and faculty at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) were shot, of whom 32 were killed. A cross-sectional survey of 4,639 Virginia Tech stud ...
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Journal articleInt Rev Psychiatry · April 2011
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Although documentation that war inflicts psychological casualties dates back to the American Civil War and earlier, most research began after the Vietnam conflict, when studies focused on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). With ongoing conflicts in Ira ...
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Journal articleChild Welfare · 2011
Many children in the child welfare system (CWS) have histories of recurrent interpersonal trauma perpetrated by caregivers early in life often referred to as complex trauma. Children in the CWS also experience a diverse range of reactions across multiple a ...
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Journal articleJ Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry · October 2010
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OBJECTIVE: To examine patterns and predictors of trends in DSM-IV serious emotional disturbance (SED) among youths exposed to Hurricane Katrina. METHOD: A probability sample of adult pre-hurricane residents of the areas affected by Katrina completed baseli ...
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Journal articleAm J Psychiatry · September 2010
OBJECTIVE: As troops return from Iraq and Afghanistan to civilian life, clinicians are starting to grapple with how best to detect those at risk of postdeployment adjustment problems. Data reveal the presence of mental health problems in these soldiers, in ...
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Journal articleProf Psychol Res Pr · February 1, 2010
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Disaster mental health is a burgeoning field with numerous opportunities for professional involvement in preparedness, response, and recovery efforts. Research is essential to advance professional understanding of risk and protective factors associated wit ...
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Journal articleNurs Educ Perspect · 2010
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A substantial number of children and families experience emotional difficulties in the aftermath of disasters and terrorist events. Only recently has training in disaster preparedness and response been systematically incorporated into the curricula of ment ...
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Journal articleJ Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry · November 2009
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OBJECTIVE: To estimate the prevalence of serious emotional disturbance (SED) among children and adolescents exposed to Hurricane Katrina along with the associations of SED with hurricane-related stressors, sociodemographics, and family factors 18 to 27 mon ...
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Journal articleAm J Psychiatry · October 2009
OBJECTIVE: The Treatment for Adolescents With Depression Study (TADS) evaluates the effectiveness of fluoxetine, cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), and their combination in adolescents with major depressive disorder. The authors report effectiveness outco ...
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Journal articleJ Trauma Stress · October 2009
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The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-V) should ensure systematic attention to age-specific manifestations and selective modifications of the diagnostic criteria for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) among childre ...
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Journal articleCurr Psychiatry Rep · August 2009
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In this article, we present an update on epidemiologic research that addresses the scope and impact of children's exposure to traumatic events in daily living, as well as under special circumstances, such as natural disasters. Toward this end, we provide a ...
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Journal articleProfessional Psychology Research and Practice · August 1, 2008
Mental health practitioners are often called upon to provide services to children, adolescents, and families in the aftermath of traumatic experiences such as child neglect, sexual or physical abuse, family/domestic violence, sexual assault, interpersonal ...
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Journal articleArch Gen Psychiatry · October 2007
CONTEXT: The Treatment for Adolescents With Depression Study evaluates the effectiveness of fluoxetine hydrochloride therapy, cognitive behavior therapy (CBT), and their combination in adolescents with major depressive disorder. OBJECTIVE: To report effect ...
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Journal articleJ Trauma Stress · August 2007
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In recent years, controversy concerning the psychological consequences of service in the Vietnam war has rearisen. In this article, the Co-Principal Investigators of the National Vietnam Veterans Readjustment Study (NVVRS) provide a perspective on new find ...
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Journal article · December 1, 2006
Children who survive traumatic events are at increased risk for serious emotional disturbance, including posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Many factors influence children's emotional reactions to traumatic experiences, including the severity and durati ...
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Journal articleJ Trauma Stress · August 2005
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There is long-standing debate about whether elevated dissociative symptoms are common in posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) or whether there is a distinct subtype of cases with elevated dissociation. The current investigation examined the latent structur ...
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Journal articleJ Nerv Ment Dis · July 2005
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Few studies have explored the relationship between exposure to adverse race-related events and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). This study examined whether adverse race-related events can give rise to symptoms that meet the criteria for a PTSD diagnos ...
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Journal articleJ Fam Psychol · June 2005
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New findings from a study by A. J. E. Dirkzwager, I. Bramsen, H. Adèr, and H. M. van der Ploeg (2005; see record 2005-06518-006) provide important empirical information on the adverse psychological and functional adjustment of families of former Dutch peac ...
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Journal articleJ Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry · January 2005
OBJECTIVE: The Treatment for Adolescents With Depression Study is a multicenter, randomized clinical trial sponsored by the NIMH. This study is designed to evaluate the short- and long-term effectiveness of four treatments for adolescents with major depres ...
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Journal articleJAMA · August 18, 2004
CONTEXT: Initial treatment of major depressive disorder in adolescents may include cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) or a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI). However, little is known about their relative or combined effectiveness. OBJECTIVE: To ...
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Journal articleJ Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry · May 2003
OBJECTIVES: A rapidly growing empirical literature on the treatment of major depressive disorder (MDD) in youth supports the efficacy of short-term treatment with depression-specific cognitive-behavioral therapy or medication management with a selective se ...
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Journal articleArch Gen Psychiatry · October 2002
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BACKGROUND: The Caring for Children in the Community Study examined the prevalence of DSM-IV psychiatric disorders and correlates of mental health service use in rural African American and white youth. METHODS: Four thousand five hundred youth aged 9 to 17 ...
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Journal articleJAMA · August 7, 2002
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CONTEXT: The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, represent an unprecedented exposure to trauma in the United States. OBJECTIVES: To assess psychological symptom levels in the United States following the events of September 11 and to examine the associ ...
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Journal articleJAMA · April 10, 2002
CONTEXT: Extracts of Hypericum perforatum (St John's wort) are widely used for the treatment of depression of varying severity. Their efficacy in major depressive disorder, however, has not been conclusively demonstrated. OBJECTIVE: To test the efficacy an ...
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Journal articleJ Trauma Stress · April 2002
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This study employed data from two Congressionally mandated efforts (the American Indian Vietnam Veterans Project and the National Vietnam Veterans Readjustment Study) to examine differential prevalence of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) among 5 ethnic ...
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Journal articleJ Trauma Stress · April 2002
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This paper examines exposure to potentially traumatic events from middle childhood through adolescence, and vulnerability to such exposure. Analyses are based on the first 4 annual waves of data from a longitudinal general population study of youth in west ...
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Journal articlePsychiatr Serv · March 2002
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OBJECTIVE: This study examined the lifetime use of alcohol, drug, and mental health treatment services by recently incarcerated women prison inmates. METHODS: A total of 805 women entering a North Carolina prison for new felony charges in 1991 and 1992 wer ...
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Journal articleJ Consult Clin Psychol · February 2002
This study investigated the cardiovascular responses to a relived anger task in 118 male Vietnam combat veterans (62 with posttraumatic stress disorder [PTSD] and 56 without PTSD). Participants completed standardized diagnostic measures, hostility measures ...
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Journal articlePsychiatry · 2002
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OBJECTIVE: To develop consensus-based guidelines for training in mental health and psychosocial interventions for trauma-exposed populations in the international arena. PARTICIPANTS: The Task Force on International Trauma Training of the International Soci ...
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Journal articlePsychol Assess · December 2001
This article describes the development and validation of the Race-Related Stressor Scale (RRSS), a questionnaire that assesses exposure to race-related stressors in the military and war zone. Validated on a sample of 300 Asian American Vietnam veterans, th ...
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Journal articleJ Consult Clin Psychol · April 2000
The present study investigated the relationship between daily diary affect ratings and ambulatory cardiovascular activity in 117 male Vietnam combat veterans (61 with posttraumatic stress disorder [PTSD] and 56 without PTSD). Participants completed 12-14 h ...
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Journal articleAm J Drug Alcohol Abuse · May 1999
This paper examines the relationship between perceived stress (at work, in family or personal life, and from being a woman in the military) and substance use (heavy drinking, illicit drug use, cigarette smoking) among active-duty military women and men. Da ...
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Journal articleJ Nerv Ment Dis · November 1998
Given the association of injury and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), we examined whether head injury might be associated with increased frequency and severity of PTSD. Using a mail survey, we queried 143 male combat veterans with and without PTSD, who ...
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Journal articleAm J Psychiatry · November 1998
OBJECTIVE: A two-part study was conducted to examine the health status of Vietnam veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). In part 1, veterans with and without PTSD were compared on health behaviors and on self-reported and physician-rated healt ...
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Journal articlePsychol Med · November 1998
BACKGROUND: A new interview measure of life events and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) has been developed for children and adolescents aged 9 through 17, for use in both epidemiological and clinical studies. It includes 'high magnitude' events associ ...
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Journal articleJournal of Child and Adolescent Substance Abuse · July 19, 1998
This paper describes important gender comparisons in drug and alcohol use, illegal activity, physical and sexual abuse, and mental health problems among a large sample of adolescents (N = 3, 382) who were treated from 1993 to 1995 in adolescent-oriented dr ...
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Journal articleJ Pers Soc Psychol · February 1998
Structural equation modeling procedures were used to examine relationships among several war zone stressor dimensions, resilience-recovery factors, and post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms in a national sample of 1,632 Vietnam veterans (26% women and 74 ...
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Journal articleJ Trauma Stress · October 1997
Little is known about the mechanisms underlying emotional numbing (EN). The functional relationship between other classes of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms and EN is also not well understood. In the present study, we examined the statistical ...
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Journal articleAddict Behav · 1997
A study was conducted to investigate smoking patterns in 445 Vietnam veterans with and without posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Combat veterans with PTSD reported similar occurrence of smoking (53%) compared to combat veterans without PTSD (45%). For ...
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Journal articleArch Gen Psychiatry · June 1996
BACKGROUND: No unbiased estimates of the rates of psychiatric disorder among women prison inmates are available. Nonetheless, available data suggest that some psychiatric disorders are prevalent in this population. The objective of the study was to determi ...
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Journal articleJ Trauma Stress · April 1996
The present study investigated self-reported and interpersonal hostility in 70 Vietnam combat veterans with and without posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and 60 comparison community volunteer subjects. Veterans were 50 help-seeking, male Vietnam combat ...
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Journal articleBehav Res Ther · July 1995
Bandura's Multidimensional Scales of Perceived Self-Efficacy (MSPSE) were administered to three matched groups of adolescents. The first group met diagnostic criteria for PTSD. The second had been exposed to qualitatively and quantitatively similar stresso ...
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Journal articleJ Trauma Stress · July 1995
The present study investigated smoking prevalence, smoking motives, demographic variables and psychological symptoms in 124 help-seeking, male Vietnam combat veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). A high percentage of these veterans smoked (6 ...
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Journal articleJ Clin Psychol · May 1995
Substance abuse treatment clients often present other severe mental health problems that affect treatment outcomes. Hence, screening and assessment for psychological distress and personality disorder are an important part of effective treatment, discharge, ...
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Journal articleAm J Psychiatry · June 1994
OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to determine the reliability and validity of a proposed measure of peritraumatic dissociation and, as part of that effort, to determine the relationship between dissociative experiences during disturbing combat trauma a ...
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Journal articleJournal of Traumatic Stress · July 1, 1993
The DSM-III criteria for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) were derived clinically and have been substantiated in the literature only by self-report data while evaluation of these same criteria with more objective measures has been overlooked. This stu ...
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Journal articleAm J Drug Alcohol Abuse · 1993
Data were analyzed from the nationwide Treatment Outcome Prospective Study (TOPS) to assess whether current and former methadone patients substitute other drugs for heroin. The sample comprised 513 heroin users who were admitted to methadone programs in 10 ...
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Journal articlePsychological Assessment · January 1, 1993
Item response theory was used to examine the measurement qualities of the Mississippi Scale for Combat-Related Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, with data taken from the 2,348 veteran participants in the National Vietnam Veterans Readjustment Study. Using Sam ...
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Journal articleJ Consult Clin Psychol · December 1992
Interviews were conducted with a nationally representative sample of 1,200 male Vietnam veterans and the spouses or co-resident partners of 376 of these veterans. The veteran interview contained questions to determine the presence of posttraumatic stress d ...
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Journal articleJournal of Traumatic Stress · July 1, 1992
A complete understanding of the consequences of service in a war zone includes examining the lifetime and current prevalence of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and of partial PTSD. Cases of partial PTSD are persons who have clinically significant sy ...
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Journal articleJournal of Traumatic Stress · July 1, 1992
Findings from the Congressionally mandated National Vietnam Veterans Readjustment Study indicate that nearly one-half million Vietnam veterans-15.2% of the men and 8.5% of the women who served in Vietnam-suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) fi ...
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Journal articleJournal of Traumatic Stress · July 1992
AbstractA complete understanding of the consequences of service in a war zone includes examining the lifetime and current prevalence of post‐traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and of partial PTSD. Cases of partial PTSD are p ...
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Journal articleJournal of Traumatic Stress · July 1992
AbstractFindings from the Congressionally mandated National Vietnam Veterans Readjustment Study indicate that nearly one‐half million Vietnam veterans —15.2% of the men and 8.5% of the women who served in Vietnam—suffer fro ...
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Journal articleHosp Community Psychiatry · June 1992
Findings from a large-scale national study of clients admitted to publicly funded drug treatment programs between 1979 and 1981 were used to determine whether cocaine use by current and former methadone patients could be predicted. The sample for this anal ...
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Journal articleJ Consult Clin Psychol · April 1991
Little is known about how survivors of extreme events cope with traumatic memories and subsequent negative life experiences. The present study compared (a) repatriated prisoners of war (RPWs) from World War II (WW II) with chronic posttraumatic stress diso ...
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Journal articleArch Gen Psychiatry · March 1991
To determine if Vietnam theater veterans were more likely than controls to have a specific psychiatric disorder other than posttraumatic stress disorder, the rates of specific psychiatric disorders were estimated using the Diagnostic Interview Schedule for ...
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Journal articleJ Subst Abuse Treat · 1991
Widespread use of cocaine by methadone clients is undermining the effectiveness of methadone treatment programs in reducing illicit drug use, decreasing criminal behavior, and slowing the spread of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). In response, metha ...
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Journal articlePsychological Assessment · January 1, 1991
Research on the assessment and diagnosis of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) has rather quickly expanded from relatively small studies in clinical settings into the realm of community epidemiology, increasingly relying on population-based or "community ...
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Journal articleBehavior Therapy · January 1, 1989
In a randomized clinical trial, 24 Vietnam veterans with a diagnosis of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) were randomly assigned either to a group receiving 14 to 16 sessions of implosive (flooding) therapy or to a waiting-list control. Standard psycho ...
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Journal articlePsychological Assessment · January 1, 1989
The Combat Exposure Scale (CES) was constructed as an attempt to measure the subjective report of wartime stressors experienced by combatants. This sequence of three studies demonstrates that the CES possesses sound psychometric properties. These include i ...
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Journal articleProfessional Psychology Research and Practice · December 1, 1987
This initial pilot survey was designed to examine the degree to which a random sample of the 1984 American Psychological Association (APA) membership agreed or disagreed with the organization's involvement in societal or professional issues. In general, th ...
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Journal articleJ Clin Psychol · January 1987
This article reviews the current status of research on the treatment of combat-related post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in Vietnam veterans. Dynamic, behavioral, and biochemical models of treatment are presented, along with the findings of relevant tr ...
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Journal articleAm J Psychiatry · April 1985
Vietnam veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder and two groups instructed to fabricate its symptoms completed the MMPI. A discriminant function analysis of selected scale scores and an empirically derived decision rule successfully classified over 90% ...
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Journal articleBehavior Therapy · January 1, 1985
A broad spectrum behavioral assessment and treatment package was utilized with two individuals who met DSM-III criteria for a diagnosis of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) related to transportation accidents. Individualized tripartite (behavioral, cogn ...
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Journal articleBehavioral Assessment · September 1, 1983
Seven abusive and seven matched nonabusive mothers were shown videotaped scenes involving stressful and nonstressful behavior in children. Three physiological measures (skin conductance response magnitude, heart rate, and respiration) were monitored before ...
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Journal articleAddict Behav · 1983
The impact of televised use of alcoholic beverages on children's behavior was evaluated in this study. Children were randomly assigned to one of three experimental conditions: (a) television with drinking depicted, (b) television without drinking, or (c) a ...
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Journal articleBehavior Therapy · January 1, 1982
An issue of major concern in the behavioral treatment of posttraumatic stress disorders (PTSD) is the extent to which the extinction of anxiety to the memory of one event generalizes to other traumatic events that the individual may have experienced. In th ...
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Journal articleProfessional Psychology Research and Practice · October 1, 1981
Lists 171 references to the etiology, symptomatology, and treatment of posttraumatic stress disorders (PTSDs) in Vietnam veterans. Psychologically and medically oriented journals, books, and government publications were searched for research and clinical r ...
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Journal articleJournal of Organizational Behavior Management · January 1, 1981
Performance feedback interventions have a long history of success as a means of enhancing productivity by modifying employee behavior. Although almost all feedback strategies appear quite simple and straightforward in their application, we have seen that t ...
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Journal articleBulletin of the Psychonomic Society · January 1, 1979
Two food-deprived female albino rats received 16% sucrose pellets under a fixed-time (FT) 60-sec food-reinforcement schedule, with water freely available in the test chamber. After water intake stabilized for each animal, subjects received either 6% or 32% ...
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Journal articleBulletin of the Psychonomic Society · January 1, 1978
Five groups of six food-deprived female albino rats received different formulas of Noyes sugared dry-food pellets under a FT 60-sec food reinforcement schedule. Relative to baseline conditions that preceded and followed the FT schedule, 26 of 30 animals mo ...
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