Count out your intrusions: Effects of verbal encoding on intrusive memories [PDF]
Peri-traumatic information processing is thought to affect the development of intrusive trauma memories. This study aimed to replicate and improve the study by Holmes, Brewin, and Hennessy (2004, Exp. 3) on the role of peri-traumatic verbal processing in analogue traumatic intrusion development.
Krans, J., Näring, G.W.B., Becker, E.S.
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Memory control ability modulates intrusive memories after analogue trauma
Most people suffer from intrusive memories in the aftermath of trauma. For survivors' well-being, it is key that these intrusions are controlled. Memory control can be exerted through retrieval suppression. Poor retrieval suppression, however, should be associated with persistent distressing intrusions and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
Streb, Markus +4 more
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Using a Brief Mental Imagery Competing Task to Reduce the Number of Intrusive Memories: Exploratory Case Series With Trauma-Exposed Women [PDF]
BackgroundNovel interventions should be developed for people who have undergone psychological trauma. In a previous case study, we found that the number of intrusive memories of trauma could be reduced with a novel intervention ...
Kristjana Thorarinsdottir +12 more
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Developing a Brief Cognitive Task Intervention to Reduce Long-Standing Intrusive Memories of Trauma: A Feasibility Study With Remote Delivery for Women in Iceland [PDF]
[Background] There is emerging evidence that a brief cognitive task intervention may reduce the frequency of intrusive memories, even long-standing memories of older trauma. However, evaluations to date have involved in-person researcher contact.
Johann Palmar Hardarson +10 more
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Qualitative analysis of hotspots and intrusive memories after viewing an aversive film highlights their sensory and spatial features [PDF]
Intrusive memories of trauma are recurrent distressing sensory-perceptual impressions of the traumatic event that enter consciousness spontaneously and unwanted.
Laura Singh +3 more
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Visuospatial Working Memory Tasks May Not Reduce the Intensity or Distress of Intrusive Memories [PDF]
Cognitive interventions involving visuospatial tasks, such as the game “Tetris” have demonstrated efficacy in reducing the frequency of intrusive memories.
Amalia Badawi +5 more
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This hypothesis and theory paper presents a pragmatic framework to help bridge the clinical presentation and neuroscience of intrusive memories following psychological trauma.
Ian A Clark, Clare E Macaky
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Using a Novel Gameplay Intervention to Target Intrusive Memories After Work-Related Trauma: Iterative Qualitative Analysis of Intensive Care Unit Staff Experiences [PDF]
BackgroundMany intensive care unit (ICU) staff experience intrusive memories following work-related traumatic events, which can lead to long-term mental health outcomes and impact work functioning.
Priya Patel +7 more
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Exploring healthcare workers’ experiences of a simple intervention to reduce their intrusive memories of psychological trauma: an interpretative phenomenological analysis [PDF]
Background: Many healthcare workers (HCWs) endured psychologically traumatic events at work during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. For some, these events are re-experienced as unwanted, recurrent, and distressing intrusive memories ...
Sara Ahmed Pihlgren +3 more
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Intrusive Memories of Distressing Information: An fMRI Study. [PDF]
Although intrusive memories are characteristic of many psychological disorders, the neurobiological underpinning of these involuntary recollections are largely unknown.
Eva Battaglini +5 more
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