ArticleEuropean journal of psychotraumatology2018
Cardiovascular and psychological responses to voluntary recall of trauma in posttraumatic stress disorder.
Article in European journal of psychotraumatology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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- Trauma-related dissociation and the autonomic nervous system: a systematic literature review of psychophysiological correlates of dissociative experiencing in PTSD patients.European journal of psychotraumatology · 2022Pooled it
- Key concepts, methods, findings, and questions about traumatic memories.Journal of traumatic stress · 2025Review
- Acute Response of Different High-Intensity Interval Training Protocols on Cardiac Auto-Regulation Using Wearable Device.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Community and domestic violence are associated with DNA methylation GrimAge acceleration and heart rate variability in adolescents.European journal of psychotraumatology · 2023Article
- Contrasting Associations Between Heart Rate Variability and Brainstem-Limbic Connectivity in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Its Dissociative Subtype: A Pilot Study.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2022Article
- The Role of Attachment Trauma and Disintegrative Pathogenic Processes in the Traumatic-Dissociative Dimension.Frontiers in psychology · 2019Article
- Memory and Forgetting.Current psychiatry reports · 2018Review
- Re-experiencing traumatic events in PTSD: new avenues in research on intrusive memories and flashbacks.European journal of psychotraumatology · 2015Article
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Abstract
Voluntary recall of trauma is a key element in exposure-based psychotherapies and can trigger spontaneous dissociative responses such as flashbacks, depersonalisation, and derealisation. In order to examine the associations between cardiovascular and psychological responses to voluntary recollection of trauma, individuals with PTSD recalled a traumatic memory. Heart rate and heart rate variability were recorded continuously and the episodes when different forms of dissociation were experienced during the recall were identified. A significant increase in parasympathetic activity was found during trauma recall, with greater parasympathetic dominance being indicative of greater state depersonalisation/derealisation. Whereas overall decreases in heart rate during trauma recall were associated with increased fear and perceived threat, flashbacks were accompanied by short-term increases in heart rate. These findings demonstrate different types of cardiovascular responses associated with different psychological experiences during trauma recall. Future research directions were discussed.
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