Vigilance and Attention among U.S. Service Members and Veterans After Combat

Messinger, Seth D.

doi:10.1111/anoc.12013

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“…First, because we used community, rather than combatexposed controls, it is possible that our findings are related to differences between military and nonmilitary personnel. If our findings were due to military training, we would expect the PTSD group to show better performance than the controls, which we did not observe, because heightened attention is heavily emphasized in military training (Messinger, 2013). Because IQ and general cognitive ability have been linked to attention performance (Schweizer & Moosebrugger, 2004) and cross-network connectivity (van den Heuvel, Stam, Kahn, & Hulshoff Pol, 2009), it is also possible our the findings are due to the differences in educational attainment between the two groups; however the findings held after controlling for level of education, which is correlated with IQ (Winship & Korenman, 1997).…”

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confidence: 59%

Behavioral and neural correlates of disrupted orienting attention in posttraumatic stress disorder

Block

King

Sripada

et al. 2016

Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci

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Prior work has revealed that posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is associated with altered (a) attentional performance and (b) resting-state functional connectivity (rsFC) in brain networks linked to attention. Here, we sought to characterize and link these behavioral and brain-based alterations in the context of Posner and Peterson's tripartite model of attention. Male military veterans with PTSD (N = 49; all deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan) and healthy age-and-gender-matched community controls (N = 26) completed the Attention Network Task. A subset of these individuals (36 PTSD and 21 controls) also underwent functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to assess rsFC. The behavioral measures revealed that the PTSD group was impaired at disengaging spatial attention, relative to the control group. FMRI measures further revealed that, relative to the control group, the PTSD group exhibited greater rsFC between the salience network and (a) the default mode network, (b) the dorsal attention network, and (c) the ventral attention network. Moreover, problems with disengaging spatial attention increased the rsFC between the networks above in the control group, but not in the PTSD group. The present findings link PTSD to both altered orienting of spatial attention and altered relationships between spatial orienting and functional connectivity involving the salience network. Interventions that target orienting and disengaging spatial attention may be a new avenue for PTSD research.

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Section: Limitationsmentioning

confidence: 59%

Behavioral and neural correlates of disrupted orienting attention in posttraumatic stress disorder

Block

King

Sripada

et al. 2016

Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci

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“…In that study, factors external to the rehabilitation programme, such as issues of broken trust associated with the injury or afterwards, were seen as having a greater influence over the extent to which patients adhered to their rehabilitation programme and adopted their prosthetics into their everyday lives. Other studies have examined rates of return to duty (21,22) the experience of female veterans with limb-loss (23), ongoing work on life after injury as former patients navigate community living (24,25), and, as mentioned above, the significance and meaning of assistive devices in the lives of individuals with lower-extremity amputations (8).…”

Section: Injury and Recoverymentioning

confidence: 99%

Social relationships in rehabilitation and their impact on positive outcomes among amputees with lower limb loss at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center

Messinger

Bozorghadad²,

Pasquina³

2018

J Rehabil Med

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“…In recent years, however, there has emerged a rich and growing anthropological and medical anthropological scholarship among military service members and veterans, including work that explores the everyday labor and embodied experiences of producing war. See, for example, Finley, 2011;Gutmann and Lutz, 2010;MacLeish, 2013;Messinger, 2013;Scandlyn and Hautzinger, 2014;Sørensen, 2015;Wool, 2015. ii. Nor is the status of "insider" a fixed or simple matter, since there are many ways of being "inside" or "outside" just as there are multiple ways of defining a community (Hurston, 1935;Bell et al, 1993;Narayan, 1993).…”

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Collaborative Research Between Student Veterans and Faculty in Higher Education

Chua

2018

JVS

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As a civilian anthropologist faculty member and a then-undergraduate student and veteran of the US Marine Corps, we draw on our experiences working together on a six-month exploratory ethnographic research project to detail the process and consider its implications, both scholarly and personal. We offer observations and reflections of the amplifying possibilities that may open up when faculty researchers share control over the research agenda, process, and actions with student veteran researchers. We reflect in particular on the value of research methods that foster spaces for women military veterans to produce, share, analyze, and contest knowledge about their experiences. While the personal significance of collaboration for student veteran researchers may be varied and multiple-whether scholarly, social, political, therapeutic, or otherwise-these collaborations also have broader implications. Namely, the inclusion of traditionally underrepresented military veterans in academic knowledge production about their experiences, priorities, and concerns.

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Vigilance and Attention among U.S. Service Members and Veterans After Combat

Cited by 18 publications

References 16 publications

Behavioral and neural correlates of disrupted orienting attention in posttraumatic stress disorder

Behavioral and neural correlates of disrupted orienting attention in posttraumatic stress disorder

Social relationships in rehabilitation and their impact on positive outcomes among amputees with lower limb loss at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center

Collaborative Research Between Student Veterans and Faculty in Higher Education

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