The role of attentional biases in PTSD: Is it interference or facilitation?

Pineles, Suzanne L.; Shipherd, Jillian C.; Welch, Lisa P.; Yovel, Iftah

doi:10.1016/j.brat.2006.08.021

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“…Our naturalistically collected data cannot determine the mechanisms underlying the pathology associated with this comorbidity, but these data do suggest that this is an important area of continued study. Basic empirical investigations of each of these dimensions have provided some support for these concepts [71][72][73][74] and continued investigation may help elucidate the mechanisms that maintain this comorbidity.…”

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Veterans seeking treatment for posttraumatic stress disorder: What about comorbid chronic pain?

Shipherd¹,

Keyes²,

Jovanović³

et al. 2007

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Abstract-Our primary aim was to document the rate of comorbidity of physician-diagnosed chronic pain conditions in veterans who were seeking treatment for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Chronic pain diagnoses (e.g., chronic lowback pain and osteoarthritis) were examined with retrospective chart review. Of the patients with PTSD, 66% had chronic pain diagnoses at pretreatment. These findings are consistent with previous studies that documented the high comorbidity of chronic pain and PTSD using samples of pain patients. Our secondary aim was to examine pain ratings before, during, and after PTSD treatment. Using data that were a part of clinical practice, we found that patients with more pain before treatment reported reductions in pain over the course of PTSD treatment and in the 4 months following treatment. While our results must be interpreted cautiously because of multiple confounding factors and the absence of experimental manipulation, they highlight the importance of PTSD and pain comorbidity.

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Veterans seeking treatment for posttraumatic stress disorder: What about comorbid chronic pain?

Shipherd¹,

Keyes²,

Jovanović³

et al. 2007

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“…The current RSVP paradigm cannot speak in favour of either one of these mechanisms. Yet, in two recent clinical studies with PTSD patients, Pineles, Shipherd, Welch, & Yovel (2007) used trauma-related words in a visual search paradigm to disentangle underlying mechanisms of attentional orientation and attentional disengagement. These authors showed that PTSD patients (in comparison with trauma-exposed controls) had particular problems with the later disengagement phase of attentional deployment, with no group effects for early capture of attention (see also Pineles, Shipherd, Mostoufi, Abramovitz, & Yovel, 2009).…”

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Attentional bias for trauma‐film reminders: Towards a laboratory analogue for studying the role of attention in the persistence of intrusive memories

Verwoerd

Wessel

Jong

2010

Applied Cognitive Psychology

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Two experiments examined whether exposure to a trauma-film induced an attentional bias (AB) for intrinsically neutral (visual) reminders of the film. In experiment 1, half of the participants (n ¼ 33) completed a rapid serial visual presentation (RSVP) task after presentation of a trauma film, whereas the other participants (n ¼ 32) engaged in this task without prior film-exposure. During the RSVP, participants were to detect neutral targets (rotated landscapes) in a stream of images that also included visual distracters consisting of stills depicting persons and objects that featured in the film as well as visual control distracters unrelated to the film. In line with predictions, participants who saw the film prior to the RSVP task showed a relatively strong deterioration of task performance when targets were preceded by film distracters. Results of a second experiment suggested that this AB could be best explained by an acquired motivational salience of the inherently neutral film reminders in the RSVP rather than by a mere familiarity effect. Thus, the current RSVP methodology seems to be a viable analogue method for studying AB after stressful or traumatic experiences.

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“…Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is associated with altered processing of emotional material with a strong attentional bias toward trauma-related information, 1 which is likely to facilitate stimulus detection 2 and interfere with concomitant cognitive processing. 3 Brain correlates of such traumatic material effect have been extensively studied in patients with PTSD through symptom provocation protocols; results have mostly indicated medial frontal hypoactivation and amygdala hyperactivation (for a review, see Liberzon and Sripada 4 ) and a negative correlation between the activations of these regions in patients perceiving aversive stimuli.…”

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Working memory processing of traumatic material in women with pottraumatic stress disorder

Landré¹,

Destrieux²,

Andersson³

et al. 2012

J Psychiatry Neurosci

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The role of attentional biases in PTSD: Is it interference or facilitation?

Cited by 114 publications

References 28 publications

Veterans seeking treatment for posttraumatic stress disorder: What about comorbid chronic pain?

Veterans seeking treatment for posttraumatic stress disorder: What about comorbid chronic pain?

Attentional bias for trauma‐film reminders: Towards a laboratory analogue for studying the role of attention in the persistence of intrusive memories

Working memory processing of traumatic material in women with pottraumatic stress disorder

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