Early heart rate responses to standardized trauma-related pictures predict posttraumatic stress disorder: A prospective study

Psychosomatic Medicine

Volumn 72, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 301-308

  Suendermann, Oliver ^a   Ehlers, Anke ^a   Boellinghaus, Inga ^a   Gamer, Matthias ^b   Glucksman, Edward ^c  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^c KING S COLLEGE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Associative learning; Dissociation; Posttraumatic stress disorder; Prospective study; Psychophysiology

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSAULT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; ELECTRODERMAL RESPONSE; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATE DEPENDENT LEARNING; STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; SURVIVOR; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADULT; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; CHRONIC DISEASE; CUES; DISSOCIATIVE DISORDERS; FEAR; FEMALE; GALVANIC SKIN RESPONSE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; MEMORY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; STARTLE REACTION; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; SURVIVORS; VIOLENCE; VISUAL PERCEPTION; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 77951438052     PISSN: 00333174     EISSN: 15347796     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PSY.0b013e3181d07db8     Document Type: Article

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