ArticleJournal of the Royal Society, Interface2023
Temporal dynamics of trauma memory persistence.
Article in Journal of the Royal Society, Interface, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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- A digital imagery-competing task intervention for stopping intrusive memories in trauma-exposed health-care staff during the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK: a Bayesian adaptive randomised clinical trial.The lancet. Psychiatry · 2026Trial
- A guided single session intervention to reduce intrusive memories of work-related trauma: a randomised controlled trial with healthcare workers in the COVID-19 pandemic.BMC medicine · 2024Trial
- Neuropsychological Functioning and Coping Strategy Intervention Approaches in Youth with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2026Review
- AI-guided digital intervention with physiological monitoring reduces intrusive memories after experimental trauma.NPJ digital medicine · 2025Article
- Targeting memory of embedded positive verbal content indirectly modulates negative visual memory.iScience · 2025Article
- How Fear Memory is Updated: From Reconsolidation to Extinction?Neuroscience bulletin · 2025Review
- Myths of trauma memory: on the oversimplification of effects of attention narrowing under stress.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Review
- Neuropsychological Consequences of Massive Trauma: Implications and Clinical Interventions.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2023Review
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Abstract
Traumatic events lead to distressing memories, but such memories are made all the worse when they intrude to mind unbidden and recurrently. Intrusive memories and flashbacks after trauma are prominent in several mental disorders, including post-traumatic stress disorder and can persist for years. Critically, the reduction of intrusive memories provides a treatment target. While cognitive and descriptive models for psychological trauma exist, these lack formal quantitative structure and robust empirical validation. Here, using techniques from stochastic process theory, we develop a mechanistically driven, quantitative framework to extend understanding of the temporal dynamic processes of trauma memory. Our approach is to develop a probabilistic description of memory mechanisms to link to the broader goals of trauma treatment. We show how the marginal gains of treatments for intrusive memories can be enhanced as key properties (intervention strength and reminder strength) of the intervention and memory consolidation (probability memories are labile) vary. Parametrizing the framework with empirical data highlights that while emerging interventions to reduce occurrence of intrusive memories can be effective, counterintuitively,
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