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Mild Traumatic Brain Injury and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: Clinical and Conceptual Complexities

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 April 2012

Jennifer J. Vasterling*
Affiliation:
VA Boston Healthcare System and Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts
Sureyya Dikmen*
Affiliation:
Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
*
Correspondence and reprint requests to: Jennifer J. Vasterling, Psychology Service and VA National Center for PTSD, VA Boston Healthcare System, (116B), 150 S. Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02130. E-mail: jennifer.vasterling@va.gov, and to Dr. Sureyya Dikmen, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Mail Stop: 359612, Harborview Medical Center, 325 Ninth Avenue, Seattle, Washington 98104. E-mail: Dikmen@u.washington.edu
Correspondence and reprint requests to: Jennifer J. Vasterling, Psychology Service and VA National Center for PTSD, VA Boston Healthcare System, (116B), 150 S. Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02130. E-mail: jennifer.vasterling@va.gov, and to Dr. Sureyya Dikmen, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Mail Stop: 359612, Harborview Medical Center, 325 Ninth Avenue, Seattle, Washington 98104. E-mail: Dikmen@u.washington.edu

Abstract

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Copyright © The International Neuropsychological Society 2012

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