Peritraumatic tonic immobility is associated with PTSD symptom severity in Brazilian police officers: a prospective study

Objective: Peritraumatic reactions feature prominently among the main predictors for development of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Peritraumatic tonic immobility (PTI), a less investigated but equally important type of peritraumatic response, has been recently attracting the attention of rese...

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Main Authors: Deborah B. Maia, Augusta Nóbrega, Carla Marques-Portella, Mauro V. Mendlowicz, Eliane Volchan, Evandro S. Coutinho, Ivan Figueira
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Associação Brasileira de Psiquiatria (ABP) 2015-03-01
Series:Brazilian Journal of Psychiatry
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1516-44462015000100049&lng=en&tlng=en