Trauma-related and neutral false memories in war-induced Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

Brennen, Tim; Dybdahl, Ragnhild; Kapidzić, Almasa

doi:10.1016/j.concog.2006.06.012

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“…The DRM paradigm has already been administered to PTSD patients to investigate whether this population is more susceptible to memory distortions (Bremner, Shobe, & Kihlstrom, 2000;Brennen, Dybdahl, & Kapidzic, 2007;Zoellner, Foa, Brigidi, & Przeworski, 2000). It has been assumed that PTSD patients are more prone to produce false memories arguing that PTSD is linked to dissociation (as a personality trait see, e.g., Bremner, Southwick, Brett, Fontana, Rosenheck, & Charney, 1992;Dancu, Riggs, Hearst-Ikeda, Shoyer, & Foa, 1996; for dissociative experiences at the time of trauma, see Ozer, Best, Lipsey, & Weiss, 2003) and dissociative symptoms have been associated with false memories (e.g., Clancy, Schacter, McNally, & Pitman, 2000;Hyman & Billings, 1998;Winograd, Peluso, & Glover, 1998).…”

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“…While the two traumatized groups did not differ statistically with regard to false memories, the false recall of critical lures was correlated with PTSD severity in the PTSD group (n ¼ 14). While the two aforementioned studies implemented neutral material to create false memories, Brennen et al (2007) additionally administered trauma-related word lists to war-exposed participants with and without PTSD. Their findings showed that groups were equally prone to critical lures of non-trauma lists, whereas the PTSD group incorrectly recalled more critical lures of the trauma-related lists.…”

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“…By implementing the remember-know paradigm (Tulving, 1985), it was proposed that PTSD patients should display more remember responses (i.e. vivid recall of episode) for false memories (Brennen et al, 2007;Zoellner et al, 2000). While the results of Brennen et al (2007) provided some evidence in this direction (i.e.…”

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“…A more recent study investigated whether trauma-related source monitoring might be specifically impaired in PTSD (Brennen, Dybdahl, & Kapidžié, 2007) false memories and the remember/know paradigm to examine the phenomenological quality of recall. As expected, more war-related lures were mistakenly recalled by the PTSD group than by controls, but these false memories were not associated with more remember responses.…”

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Recollection of negative information in posttraumatic stress disorder

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Journal of Traumatic Stress

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The purpose of the present study was to investigate the effects of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) associated with the effects of emotional valence on recall processes in recognition memory. Patients suffering from PTSD (n = 15) were compared with 15 nontraumatized patients with anxious and depressive symptoms and with 15 nontraumatized controls on the remember/know paradigm using negative, positive, and neutral words. The PTSD group remembered more negative words than the nontraumatized controls, F(1, 42) = 7.20, p = .01, but there was no difference between those with PTSD and those with anxiety or depression, F(1, 42) = 2.93, p = .09, or between the latter and controls, F(1, 42) < 1. This study did not allow us to determine whether this recollection bias for negative information was specific to the PTSD status or was triggered by the greater level of anxiety displayed in this group.

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“…This study did not include trauma-related stimuli. Another study compared memory for trauma-related and neutral information, using the same paradigm but in war-exposed individuals (Brennen, Dybdahl, & Kapidžić, 2007). PTSD was associated with lower recall of trauma-related and neutral information, as well as increased false recall of trauma-related critical lures.…”

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Memory for neutral, emotional and trauma-related information in sexual abuse survivors

Forest

Blanchette

2018

European Journal of Psychotraumatology

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Previous studies have shown that trauma-exposed individuals, including survivors of sexual abuse, show inferior performance in episodic memory tasks compared to non-exposed controls. This, however, has mainly been tested using neutral content. Our goal in this study was to determine whether this relative impairment in episodic memory extends to generally emotional and trauma-related content. Twenty-seven sexual abuse survivors and 27 control women participated in the study. They listened to stories with three content types (neutral, generally emotional and trauma-related) and performed a free-recall task immediately and 30 minutes later. Sexual abuse survivors showed poorer recall of neutral material compared to control participants. Lower recall was also observed for generally emotional content. However, importantly, there was no difference between groups in the recall of trauma-related content. The main novel contribution of this study is the demonstration that verbal episodic memory is not impaired for non-autobiographical trauma-related content in sexual abuse survivors. We discuss how this could be explained by personal relevance and attentional capture.

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Trauma-related and neutral false memories in war-induced Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

Cited by 50 publications

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Visual false memories in post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)

Visual false memories in post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)

Recollection of negative information in posttraumatic stress disorder

Memory for neutral, emotional and trauma-related information in sexual abuse survivors

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