SynthesisFrontiers in psychiatry2022
Impaired episodic memory in PTSD patients - A meta-analysis of 47 studies.
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- The effect of eye movement desensitization on neurocognitive functioning compared to retrieval-only in PTSD patients: a randomized controlled trial.BMC psychiatry · 2024Trial
- Severe PTSD symptoms magnify episodic memory-encoding deficits and amygdala-ACC attenuation during unpredictable threat in male combat veterans.Molecular psychiatry · 2026Article
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- How Psychological Trauma Affects Cognitive Functions: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Clinical neuropsychiatry · 2026Article
- Ketogenic therapy as a potential novel treatment approach for PTSD: an integrative review and proposed mechanistic model.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Review
- Investigating the Effect of Caffeine on the Effectiveness of Crocin in Improving Behavioral Symptoms and Brain Tissue Changes in the Hippocampus in the Post-Traumatic Stress Model in Rats.Advanced biomedical research · 2026Article
- Posttraumatic stress disorder, major depression, and mild cognitive impairment: A cohort study of world trade center responders.Psychiatry research · 2026Article
- Memory in Psychiatric Disorders: A Review.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Central Role of Toll-like Receptor-9 Gene Function in Inflammation-Mediated Neuronal Plasticity: Implications for Long-Term Memory Development.Molecular neurobiology · 2025Review
- Impacts of early life adversity on the neurocircuitry of emotional memory in children.Development and psychopathology · 2025Article
- Unraveling trauma memory: Differential functional connectivity profiles of anterior and posterior hippocampus in post-traumatic stress disorder and its dissociative subtype.Neuroimage. Reports · 2025Article
- "Big chunks of blank memory": complex trauma and dissociative body memory.Medicine, health care, and philosophy · 2025Article
- Aberrant neural event segmentation during a continuous social narrative in trauma-exposed older adolescents and young adults.Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2025Article
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- [Trauma and memory-A contribution to the current debate in law and psychotherapy].Der Nervenarzt · 2024Review
- Vulnerability of the Hippocampus to Insults: Links to Blood-Brain Barrier Dysfunction.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024Review
- Imagining emotional future events in PTSD: clinical and neurocognitive correlates.Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2023Article
- Imaging the cerebellum in post-traumatic stress and anxiety disorders: a mini-review.Frontiers in systems neuroscience · 2023Review
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Abstract
Episodic memory impairments beyond the traumatic event might be a characteristic hallmark of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Although several studies support such a claim, empirical findings are inconsistent. Therefore, we performed a random-effects meta-analysis including data from a total of 47 studies and 3,062 subjects. As main finding, we can show that PTSD patients show episodic memory deficits compared to all controls. This effect was significantly stronger for PTSD vs. non-traumatized healthy controls as compared to PTSD vs. traumatized controls without PTSD. Finally, episodic memory impairments in PTSD were most pronounced in verbal memory tests as compared to non-verbal memory tests. Our results provide new evidence that PTSD is characterized by impaired episodic long-term memory beyond the traumatic event, and these deficits are particularly pronounced in verbal memory. We will discuss our findings in the context of physiological, psychological and trauma related memory models. From a broader perspective, our findings may have implications for the treatment of PTSD by suggesting that the assessment and, if necessary, training of memory deficits could be included as part of diagnostics and psychotherapeutic treatment.
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