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Brain structural abnormalities and mental health sequelae in South Vietnamese ex-political detainees who survived traumatic head injury and torture

Mollica RF, Lyoo IK, Chernoff MC, Bui HX, Lavelle J, Yoon SJ, Kim JE, Renshaw PF. Brain structural abnormalities and mental health sequelae in South Vietnamese ex-political detainees who survived traumatic head injury and torture. Arch Gen Psychiatry. November 2009;66(11):1221-1232.

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Publication Date
November 2009

How Analyze was Used
“Subcortical and intracranial volume analyses were performed with the Analyze 5.0 software (AnalyzeDirect).”

Keywords
Asian Continental Ancestry Group/psychology
Brain/pathology
Brain Injuries/pathology/psychology
Craniocerebral Trauma/complications/pathology/psychology
Cross-Sectional Studies
Depressive Disorder/diagnosis/etiology/pathology
Functional Laterality/physiology
Health Status
Humans
Life Change Events
Male
Middle Aged
Politics
Prisoners/psychology
Quality of Life
Questionnaires
Refugees/psychology
Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic/etiology/pathology/psychology
Survivors/psychology
Torture/psychology
United States
Vietnam/ethnology
Vietnam Conflict

Author Affiliation(s)
Harvard Program in Refugee Trauma, Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Cambridge, MA, US. (RFM, JL)

Department of Psychiatry, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea. (KL, JEK)

Department of Neuroscience, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea. (KL)

McLean Hospital Brain Imaging Center and Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Belmont, MA, US. (KL)

Center for Biostatistics in AIDS Research, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, US. (MCC)

Vietnamese-American Civic Association, Dorchester, MA, US. (HXB)

Department of Psychiatry, Catholic University Medical College, Seoul, South Korea. (SJY)

Department of Psychiatry and The Brain Institute, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, US. (PFR)

Department of Veterans Affairs VISN 19 Mental Illness Research, Education, and Clinical Center, Salt Lake City, UT, US. (PFR)

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