Mental Time Travel in Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: Current Gaps and Future Directions

Frontiers in Psychology

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Nadia Rahman¹  Adam D. Brown¹ 

[1] Department of Psychology, The New School for Social Research, United States;Department of Psychiatry, New York University School of Medicine, United States

关键词: post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD);    autobiographical memory;    prospection;    future thinking;    cognition;    mental time travel;    flashbacks;    flashforwards;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2021.624707

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

Exposure to potentially traumatic events is a common experience throughout the world. Althoughmany people typically do not experience mental health issues following such events, a significantminority of individuals will develop a psychiatric disorder. Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)is the most frequent negative mental health outcome of traumatic events (e.g., Hoge et al., 2004)and is associated with considerable functional impairment (e.g., Silverstein et al., 2018). Althoughrecent decades have been marked by important advances in PTSD treatments, a subset of patientsstill does not respond to first-line pharmacotherapy or extant evidence-based psychotherapies(Lancaster et al., 2016), underscoring the need for new treatment development. Elucidation of theneurocognitive processes underlying the pathogenesis and maintenance of PTSD may represent acritical step toward developing more optimal treatments.

【 授权许可】

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