SynthesisCognition & emotion2015
Low emotional response to traumatic footage is associated with an absence of analogue flashbacks: an individual participant data meta-analysis of 16 trauma film paradigm experiments.
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- Intrusive memories of trauma: A target for research bridging cognitive science and its clinical application.Clinical psychology review · 2019Pooled it
- Psychophysiological reactivity, coping behaviour and intrusive memories upon multisensory Virtual Reality and Script-Driven Imagery analogue trauma: A randomised controlled crossover study.Journal of anxiety disorders · 2018Trial
- Examining the utility of digital phenotyping for the prediction of intrusive experiences.European journal of psychotraumatology · 2026Article
- Spatial encoding of a traumatic virtual reality scene reduces intrusive memories.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2026Article
- Comparing a new visuospatial intervention administered 3 days after a trauma film to reduce the occurrence of intrusive visual memories: a single-center randomized, controlled trial in healthy participants.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Workplace Trauma in a Digital Age: The Impact of Video Evidence of Violent Crime on Criminal Justice Professionals.Journal of interpersonal violence · 2023Article
- Multisensory processing of emotional cues predicts intrusive memories after virtual reality trauma.Virtual reality · 2023Article
- Frequency of Intrusions and Appraisal of Related Distress After Analogue Trauma: A Comparative Ecological Momentary Assessment Methods Study.Cognitive therapy and research · 2019Article
- A prospective examination of risk factors in the development of intrusions following a trauma analog.Behaviour research and therapy · 2017Article
- The impact of pre-existing anxiety on affective and cognitive processing of a Virtual Reality analogue trauma.PloS one · 2017Article
- A virtual reality paradigm as an analogue to real-life trauma: its effectiveness compared with the trauma film paradigm.European journal of psychotraumatology · 2017Article
- Tetris and Word games lead to fewer intrusive memories when applied several days after analogue trauma.European journal of psychotraumatology · 2017Article
- Analog Flashbacks.Sleep · 2015Article
- Mental Imagery and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: A Neuroimaging and Experimental Psychopathology Approach to Intrusive Memories of Trauma.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2015Review
- First steps in using machine learning on fMRI data to predict intrusive memories of traumatic film footage.Behaviour research and therapy · 2014Article
- Serotonin transporter genotype (5-HTTLPR) and electrocortical responses indicating the sensitivity to negative emotional cues.Emotion (Washington, D.C.) · 2013Article
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Abstract
Most people will experience or witness a traumatic event. A common occurrence after trauma is the experience of involuntary emotional memories of the traumatic event, herewith "flashbacks". Some individuals, however, report no flashbacks. Prospective work investigating psychological factors associated with an absence of flashbacks is lacking. We performed an individual participant data meta-analysis on 16 experiments (n = 458) using the trauma film paradigm to investigate the association of emotional response to traumatic film footage and commonly collected baseline characteristics (trait anxiety, current depression, trauma history) with an absence of analogue flashbacks. An absence of analogue flashbacks was associated with low emotional response to the traumatic film footage and, to a lesser extent, low trait anxiety and low current depression levels. Trauma history and recognition memory for the film were not significantly associated with an absence of analogue flashbacks. Understanding why some individuals report an absence of flashbacks may aid preventative treatments against flashback development.
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