A cognitive neuroscience account of posttraumatic stress disorder and its treatment

Recent research in the areas of animal conditioning, the neural systems underlying emotion and memory, and the effect of fear on these systems is reviewed. This evidence points to an important distinction between hippocampally-dependent and non-hippocampally-dependent forms of memory that are differ...

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Published inBehaviour research and therapy Vol. 39; no. 4; pp. 373 - 393
Main Author Brewin, Chris R.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Oxford Elsevier Ltd 01.04.2001
Elsevier Science
Elsevier Science Ltd
Subjects
Adult and adolescent clinical studies
Animals
Anxiety disorders. Neuroses
Behavior therapy. Cognitive therapy
Biological and medical sciences
Cognition & reasoning
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy - methods
Cognitive Science
Fear - physiology
Fear - psychology
Hippocampus - physiopathology
Humans
Medical sciences
Memory - classification
Models, Psychological
Neural Pathways - physiopathology
Neurology
Post traumatic stress disorder
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychopathology. Psychiatry
Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic - physiopathology
Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic - psychology
Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic - therapy
Stress, Psychological - physiopathology
Therapy
Treatments
Human
Cognitive therapy
Desensitization
Posttraumatic syndrome
Anxiety disorder
Autobiographical memory
Cognition
Review
Long term
Eye movement
Reprocessing
Stress
Verbal memory
Cognitive theory
Life events
Theoretical model
Treatment
Behavior therapy
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Summary:Recent research in the areas of animal conditioning, the neural systems underlying emotion and memory, and the effect of fear on these systems is reviewed. This evidence points to an important distinction between hippocampally-dependent and non-hippocampally-dependent forms of memory that are differentially affected by extreme stress. The cognitive science perspective is related to a recent model of posttraumatic stress disorder, dual representation theory, that also posits separate memory systems underlying vivid reexperiencing versus ordinary autobiographical memories of trauma. This view is compared with other accounts in the literature of traumatic memory processes in PTSD, and the contrasting implications for therapy are discussed.
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ISSN:0005-7967
1873-622X
DOI:10.1016/S0005-7967(00)00087-5