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Are Trauma Memories Disjointed from other Autobiographical Memories in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder? An Experimental Investigation
This study tested the hypothesis that trauma memories are disjointed from other autobiographical material in posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Assault survivors with (n = 25) and without PTSD (n = 49) completed an autobiographical memory retrieval task during script-driven imagery of (a) the ass...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2889292/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21241538 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1352465807004080 |
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author | Kleim, Birgit Wallott, Franziska Ehlers, Anke |
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description | This study tested the hypothesis that trauma memories are disjointed from other autobiographical material in posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Assault survivors with (n = 25) and without PTSD (n = 49) completed an autobiographical memory retrieval task during script-driven imagery of (a) the assault and (b) an unrelated negative event. When listening to a taped imagery script of the worst moment of their assault, survivors with PTSD took longer to retrieve unrelated non-traumatic autobiographical information than those without PTSD, but not when listening to a taped script of the worst moment of another negative life event. The groups also did not differ in general retrieval latencies, neither at baseline nor after the imagery tasks. The findings are in line with suggestions that traumatic memories are less integrated with other autobiographical information in trauma survivors with PTSD than in those without PTSD. |
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spelling | pubmed-28892922010-06-24 Are Trauma Memories Disjointed from other Autobiographical Memories in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder? An Experimental Investigation Kleim, Birgit Wallott, Franziska Ehlers, Anke Behav Cogn Psychother Research Article This study tested the hypothesis that trauma memories are disjointed from other autobiographical material in posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Assault survivors with (n = 25) and without PTSD (n = 49) completed an autobiographical memory retrieval task during script-driven imagery of (a) the assault and (b) an unrelated negative event. When listening to a taped imagery script of the worst moment of their assault, survivors with PTSD took longer to retrieve unrelated non-traumatic autobiographical information than those without PTSD, but not when listening to a taped script of the worst moment of another negative life event. The groups also did not differ in general retrieval latencies, neither at baseline nor after the imagery tasks. The findings are in line with suggestions that traumatic memories are less integrated with other autobiographical information in trauma survivors with PTSD than in those without PTSD. Cambridge University Press 2008-03 2009-05-29 /pmc/articles/PMC2889292/ /pubmed/21241538 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1352465807004080 Text en Copyright © 2008 British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ The online version of this article is published within an Open Access environment subject to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike licence <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/>. (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/>) The written permission of Cambridge University Press must be obtained for commercial re-use. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Kleim, Birgit Wallott, Franziska Ehlers, Anke Are Trauma Memories Disjointed from other Autobiographical Memories in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder? An Experimental Investigation |
title | Are Trauma Memories Disjointed from other Autobiographical Memories in
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder? An Experimental Investigation |
title_full | Are Trauma Memories Disjointed from other Autobiographical Memories in
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder? An Experimental Investigation |
title_fullStr | Are Trauma Memories Disjointed from other Autobiographical Memories in
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder? An Experimental Investigation |
title_full_unstemmed | Are Trauma Memories Disjointed from other Autobiographical Memories in
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder? An Experimental Investigation |
title_short | Are Trauma Memories Disjointed from other Autobiographical Memories in
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder? An Experimental Investigation |
title_sort | are trauma memories disjointed from other autobiographical memories in
posttraumatic stress disorder? an experimental investigation |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2889292/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21241538 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1352465807004080 |
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