Malingering and PTSD: detecting malingering and war related PTSD by Miller Forensic Assessment of Symptoms Test

Khodabakhsh Ahmadi1, Zeynab Lashani, Mohammad Hassan Afzali

  • 1Behavioral Sciences Research Center, Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences, P,O, Box: 19395-5487, Tehran, Iran. kh_ahmady@yahoo.com

BMC Psychiatry
|May 30, 2013
PubMed
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