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