PTSD Is Associated with Impaired Event Processing and Memory for Everyday Events

Autor/inn/en	Pitts, Barbara L.; Eisenberg, Michelle L.; Bailey, Heather R.; Zacks, Jeffrey M.
Titel	PTSD Is Associated with Impaired Event Processing and Memory for Everyday Events
Quelle	In: Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 7 (2022), Artikel 35 (13 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Pitts, Barbara L.)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2365-7464
DOI	10.1186/s41235-022-00386-6
Schlagwörter	Posttraumatic Stress Disorder; Memory; Severity (of Disability); Predictor Variables; Recall (Psychology); Symptoms (Individual Disorders) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Gedächtnis; Schweregrad; Prädiktor; Abberufung; Psychiatrische Symptomatik
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. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01