Citation

Jelinek L, Hottenrott B, Randjbar S, Peters MJ, Moritz S. J. Behav. Ther. Exp. Psychiatry 2009; 40(2): 374-383.

Affiliation

Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany. l.jelinek@uke.uni-hamburg.de

Copyright

(Copyright © 2009, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.jbtep.2009.02.003

PMID

19303587

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.

Language: en