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Preferred term

Stress Disorders, Traumatic  

Type

  • mesh:Descriptor

Definition

  • Anxiety disorders manifested by the development of characteristic symptoms following a psychologically traumatic event that is outside the normal range of usual human experience. Symptoms include re-experiencing the traumatic event, increased arousal, and numbing of responsiveness to or reduced involvement with the external world. Traumatic stress disorders can be further classified by the time of onset and the duration of these symptoms.

In other languages

  • French

  • Syndrome de stress traumatique
  • Troubles de stress
  • Troubles de stress d'origine traumatique
  • Troubles liés à des facteurs de stress
  • Troubles liés aux évènements traumatiques

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/JVR-QZTNB9QB-3

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