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Substance Use, Childhood Traumatic Experience, and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in an Urban Civilian Population
Keywords African-American; minority; trauma; childhood maltreatment; psychiatry; alcohol; cocaine; marijuana(2010)
Porter v. McCollum
Keywords PTSD; combat trauma; abusive childhood; brain impairment; prejudiced(2009)
Comparison of Self-Reported Health and Healthcare Utilisation Between Asylum Seekers and Refugees: An Observational Study
Keywords Asylum seekers; refugees; mental health; depression; anxiety; post-migration stressors; health service utilisation; PTSD(2009)
Council v. State
Keywords postconviction relief; new penalty hearing; ineffective counsel; mitigating evidence; schizophrenia; brain dysfunction; traumatic upbringing(2008)
Allen v. Bloomfield Hills Sch. Dist.
Keywords PTSD; bodily injury; medical evidence; physical injury; expert testimony; trauma-related brain abnormalities(2008)
Patterson v. Board of Trustees, State Police Retirement System
Keywords permanent mental injury; psychological stressor; traumatic event; accidental disability benefits; mental injury; disability benefits; accidental disability(2008)
Ryder v. USAA Gen. Indem. Co.
Keywords Emotional trauma; bodily injury; insurance policy; diagnosable mental illness; psychological harm; mental illness(2007)
Scarver v Litscher
Keywords Eighth Amendment; deliberate indifference; solitary confinement; mental illness; schizophrenic inmate; liability(2006)
State v. Paiz
Keywords treatment-based diagnoses; reliable PTSD diagnoses; qualified experts; PTSD testimony; PTSD symptoms; sexual abuse; expert testimony(2006)
Commonwealth v. May
Keywords abusive childhood; penalty phase; mitigating circumstance; death sentence; excluding evidence; capital punishment(2006)
Debunking Myths About Trauma and Memory
Keywords memory; trauma; dissociation; amnesia; repression; posttraumatic stress disorder; sexual abuse; PTSD(2005)
Wiggins v. Smith
Keywords ineffective assistance; childhood abuse; neglect; life sentence; evidence(2003)
State v. Weaver
Keywords battered woman's syndrome; cycle of violence; domestic abuse; expert testimony; abuse; intimate partner violence; psychological effects of abuse; domestic violence awareness(2002)
Fairfax County Fire & Rescue Department v. Mottram
Keywords firefighter PTSD; occupational disease; workers comp; traumatic emergency events; neurobiological changes; work-related PTSD; emergency responder mental health; first responder(2002)
Turturro v. Cont'l Airlines
Keywords PTSD; bodily injury; emotional trauma; neurological changes; structural brain changes; emotional injury; verifiable neurological changes; brain changes(2001)