Psychiatry Research
Volume 170, Issue 2 , Pages 278-281 , 30 December 2009

Posttraumatic stress disorder with and without alcohol use disorders: Diagnostic and clinical correlates in a psychiatric sample

  • Lara A. Ray

      Affiliations

    • University of California Los Angeles, Department of Psychology, Los Angeles, CA, United States
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, Box 951563, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1563, United States. Tel.: +1 310 794 5383; fax: +1 310 310 207 5895.
    • ,
  • Christy Capone

      Affiliations

    • Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies, Brown University, Providence, RI, United States
    • ,
  • Erin Sheets

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Brown Medical School, Providence, RI, United States
    • ,
  • Diane Young

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Brown Medical School, Providence, RI, United States
    • ,
  • Iwona Chelminski

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Brown Medical School, Providence, RI, United States
    • ,
  • Mark Zimmerman

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Brown Medical School, Providence, RI, United States

Received 11 March 2008 ,Revised 7 October 2008 ,Accepted 23 October 2008.

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doi: 10.1016/j.psychres.2008.10.015

Psychiatry Research
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