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

Lena Jelinek; Birgit Hottenrott; Sarah Randjbar; Maarten J. Peters; Steffen Moritz

doi:10.1016/j.jbtep.2009.02.003

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

Lena Jelinek^*, Birgit Hottenrott, Sarah Randjbar, Maarten J. Peters, Steffen Moritz

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Abstract

There is an ongoing debate whether or not patients with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are more prone to produce false memories. The present study investigated this question using a visual variant of the Deese-Roediger-McDermott (DRM) paradigm, additionally addressing underlying mechanisms of false memory production (e.g., depression, dissociation, emotional valence, arousal). The visual paradigm was administered to 48 traumatized individuals with (n = 20) and without PTSD (n = 28) and 28 non-traumatized controls. Groups did not differ with regard to memory performance and memory confidence. False memories were correlated with depression. We recommend that future studies employ trauma-related material to further explore memory aberrations in PTSD.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	374-383
Number of pages	10
Journal	Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry
Volume	40
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbtep.2009.02.003
Publication status	Published - Jun 2009

Keywords

Depression
Dissociation
False memory
Post-traumatic stress disorder
Source monitoring
Trauma

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