Imagining emotional future events in PTSD: clinical and neurocognitive correlates.
Emotional future thinking serves important functions related to goal pursuit and emotion regulation but has been scantly studied in posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The current study sought to characterize emotional future thinking in PTSD and to identify clinical and neurocognitive profiles as...
| Publicado en: | Cognitive, Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience Vol. 23; no. 5; pp. 1428 - 1445 |
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Springer Nature
Oct2023
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ccm&AN=172438634&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ccm uiTerm: 172438634 longDbName: CINAHL Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: dissinfo: jinfo: jid: 15307026 NA4 jtl: Cognitive, Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience issn: 15307026 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Oct2023 vid: 23 iid: 5 pid: 237 pub: Springer Nature place: New York, New York artinfo: ui: 172438634 10.3758/s13415-023-01121-4 172438634 ppf: 1428 ppct: 17 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P tig: atl: Imagining emotional future events in PTSD: clinical and neurocognitive correlates. aug: au: Verfaellie, Mieke Patt, Virginie Lafleche, Ginette Hunsberger, Renee Vasterling, Jennifer J. affil: Memory Disorders Research Center, VA Boston Healthcare System (182 MDRC), 150 S Huntington Avenue, 02130, Boston, MA, USA sug: ab: Emotional future thinking serves important functions related to goal pursuit and emotion regulation but has been scantly studied in posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The current study sought to characterize emotional future thinking in PTSD and to identify clinical and neurocognitive profiles associated with potential alterations in the level of detail in narratives of imagined future events. Fifty-eight, trauma-exposed, war-zone veterans, who were classified into current PTSD, past PTSD, and no-PTSD groups, were asked to vividly imagine future events in response to positive and negative cue words occurring in the near and distant future. These narratives were scored for internal (i.e., pertaining to the main event) and external (i.e., tangential to the main event) details. Participants also performed neurocognitive tasks of generative ability, working memory, and relational verbal memory. Linear mixed modeling revealed that the current and past PTSD groups generated fewer internal details than the no-PTSD group across positive and negative cue words and across temporal proximity. Partial least squares analysis revealed that symptom severity for all PTSD clusters was inversely associated with production of internal details, albeit with the association relatively weaker for intrusion symptoms. Among the neurocognitive tasks, only relational verbal memory was associated with production of internal details. These findings suggest, as predicted, that functional avoidance may underlie reduced detail generation but also point to potential additional mechanisms to be further investigated. That future event simulation remains overgeneral even when PTSD symptoms abate highlights the importance of addressing alterations in future thinking in this population. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Journal Article ougenre: Article language: English refInfo: holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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