The endocannabinoid system as a possible target to treat both the cognitive and emotional features of post-traumatic stress disorder

Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a psychiatric disorder of significant prevalence and morbidity, whose pathogenesis relies on paradoxical changes of emotional memory processing. An ideal treatment would be a drug able to block the pathological over-consolidation and continuous retrieval of th...

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Main Authors: Viviana eTrezza, Patrizia eCampolongo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2013-08-01
Series:Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnbeh.2013.00100/full