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Cardiovascular Correlates of Motor Vehicle Accident Related Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and its Successful Treatment
Persons with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) have been shown to display elevated baseline cardiovascular activity and a heightened physiological reactivity to trauma-related stimuli. Study 1 examined differences in baseline heart rate (HR) and HR reactivity in 68 survivors of motor vehicle acci...
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Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1705541/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17094031 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10484-006-9027-1 |
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author | Rabe, Sirko Dörfel, Denise Zöllner, Tanja Maercker, Andreas Karl, Anke |
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description | Persons with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) have been shown to display elevated baseline cardiovascular activity and a heightened physiological reactivity to trauma-related stimuli. Study 1 examined differences in baseline heart rate (HR) and HR reactivity in 68 survivors of motor vehicle accidents (MVAs) and healthy controls without MVA. MVA survivors with PTSD (n=26), subsyndromal PTSD (n=22), traumatized controls without PTSD (non-PTSD with MVA, n=20) and healthy controls without MVA (HC, n=27) underwent measurement of HR during baseline and exposure to a neutral, positive, negative, and trauma-related picture. PTSD patients showed elevated baseline HR and increased HR reactivity only during exposure to the trauma-related picture. Study 2 investigated whether the elevated physiological responses observed in Study 1 normalized after cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT). We conducted a randomized, controlled treatment trial comparing CBT (n=17) to a Wait-list condition (WLC, n=18). Results showed a greater decrease in HR reactivity for CBT than for WLC. The change in HR reactivity was associated with clinical improvement. |
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spelling | pubmed-17055412006-12-18 Cardiovascular Correlates of Motor Vehicle Accident Related Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and its Successful Treatment Rabe, Sirko Dörfel, Denise Zöllner, Tanja Maercker, Andreas Karl, Anke Appl Psychophysiol Biofeedback Original Paper Persons with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) have been shown to display elevated baseline cardiovascular activity and a heightened physiological reactivity to trauma-related stimuli. Study 1 examined differences in baseline heart rate (HR) and HR reactivity in 68 survivors of motor vehicle accidents (MVAs) and healthy controls without MVA. MVA survivors with PTSD (n=26), subsyndromal PTSD (n=22), traumatized controls without PTSD (non-PTSD with MVA, n=20) and healthy controls without MVA (HC, n=27) underwent measurement of HR during baseline and exposure to a neutral, positive, negative, and trauma-related picture. PTSD patients showed elevated baseline HR and increased HR reactivity only during exposure to the trauma-related picture. Study 2 investigated whether the elevated physiological responses observed in Study 1 normalized after cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT). We conducted a randomized, controlled treatment trial comparing CBT (n=17) to a Wait-list condition (WLC, n=18). Results showed a greater decrease in HR reactivity for CBT than for WLC. The change in HR reactivity was associated with clinical improvement. Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers 2006-11-09 2006-12 /pmc/articles/PMC1705541/ /pubmed/17094031 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10484-006-9027-1 Text en © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2006 |
spellingShingle | Original Paper Rabe, Sirko Dörfel, Denise Zöllner, Tanja Maercker, Andreas Karl, Anke Cardiovascular Correlates of Motor Vehicle Accident Related Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and its Successful Treatment |
title | Cardiovascular Correlates of Motor Vehicle Accident Related Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and its Successful Treatment |
title_full | Cardiovascular Correlates of Motor Vehicle Accident Related Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and its Successful Treatment |
title_fullStr | Cardiovascular Correlates of Motor Vehicle Accident Related Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and its Successful Treatment |
title_full_unstemmed | Cardiovascular Correlates of Motor Vehicle Accident Related Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and its Successful Treatment |
title_short | Cardiovascular Correlates of Motor Vehicle Accident Related Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and its Successful Treatment |
title_sort | cardiovascular correlates of motor vehicle accident related posttraumatic stress disorder and its successful treatment |
topic | Original Paper |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1705541/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17094031 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10484-006-9027-1 |
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