TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2007//
TI  - Relationship between heart rate and emotional memory in subjects with a past history of post‐traumatic stress disorder
JO  - Psychiatry and the Clinical Neurosciences
A1  - Nagamine, Mitsue
A1  - Matsuoka, Yutaka
A1  - Mori, Etsuro
A1  - Fujimori, Maiko
A1  - Imoto, Shigeru
A1  - Kim, Yoshiharu
A1  - Uchitomi, Yosuke
SP  - 441
EP  - 443
VL  - 61
IS  - 4
N2  - Abstract  Considerable evidence suggests that the adrenergic system plays an important role in the biological mechanism of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). In the present pilot study the association between heart rate (HR) recorded prior to slide viewing and long-term emotional memory was compared between human subjects with a past history of PTSD (n = 6) and healthy women controls (n = 12). The correlation between HR during the anticipatory period and emotional memory was significant for the PTSD group (r = 0.93, P < 0.001) but not for the control group (r = 0.21, NS). The adrenergic reaction appears to be associated with emotional memory, which may be strengthened in subjects with a past history of PTSD.<p /> 
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SN  - 1323-1316
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1440-1819.2007.01677.x
ID  - ref1
ER  -