NSC 4312 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Affective Neuroscience, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Behaviorism
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Emotions and stress: ptsd mortality, boscarino j. A 2008. a prospective study of ptsd and early age heart disease mortality among vietnam vets: implications for surveillance and prevention: prospective study of heart disease related deaths among vietnam. Assessed and statistically account for: age, race. Intelligence: reflects income so health care is better, make better choices for health, family history of hd, obesity, smoking, alcohol abuse, antisocial personality, depression, two measures of ptsd. Dsm-iii: have to go through an event that threatens the integrity of one"s life and significant personal damage to one"s life. If you"re in one particular group how do you affect the something in the other group: even with the controls ptsd still increases risk for hd (those with higher. Ptsd) - 20% increase in risk: even for the theater: those not deployed but not as high as above.
