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ArticleCognitive research: principles and implications2022

PTSD is associated with impaired event processing and memory for everyday events.

Barbara L Pitts, Michelle L Eisenberg, Heather R Bailey, Jeffrey M Zacks

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Article in Cognitive research: principles and implications, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers.

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20citing papers in PubMed
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20 citing papers in PubMed, 44 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Barbara L PittsDepartment of Psychological Sciences, Kansas State University, 942 Bluemont Hall, 1114 Mid-Campus Dr. North, Manhattan, KS, 66503, USA. barbaral.pitts@gmail.com.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9770-2927
Michelle L EisenbergWashington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, USA.
Heather R BaileyDepartment of Psychological Sciences, Kansas State University, 942 Bluemont Hall, 1114 Mid-Campus Dr. North, Manhattan, KS, 66503, USA.
Jeffrey M ZacksWashington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, USA.
Kansas State University · USWashington University in St. Louis · US

Funding

The role of prestimulus oscillatory brain dynamics in auditory memoryP20GM113109 · NIGMS · KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY · PI Heather Bailey · 2017 to 2026
$24.1M
NIGMS NIH HHS P20 GM113109
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Current theories of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) propose that memory abnormalities are central to the development and persistence of symptoms. While the most notable memory disturbances in PTSD involve memory for the trauma itself, individuals often have trouble remembering aspects of everyday life. Further, people with PTSD may have difficulty segmenting ongoing activity into discrete units, which is important for our perception and later memory of the activity. The current study investigated whether PTSD diagnosis and symptom severity predicted event segmentation and memory for everyday activities. To do so, 63 people with PTSD and 64 controls with a trauma history watched, segmented, and recalled videos of everyday activities. Viewers with higher PTSD symptom severity showed lower agreement on locations of event boundaries and recalled fewer fine-grained actions than did those with lower symptom severity. These results suggest that PTSD symptoms alter event segmentation, which may contribute to subsequent memory disturbances.

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Stress Disorders, Post-TraumaticHumansMemory DisordersMental RecallEvent segmentationMemoryNarrative primingPTSDSymptom severity

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PMID35467165
PMCPMC9038970
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