{"id":3485,"date":"2021-07-13T15:45:52","date_gmt":"2021-07-13T11:15:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iricss.org\/en\/?p=3485"},"modified":"2021-07-13T16:23:41","modified_gmt":"2021-07-13T11:53:41","slug":"impaired-autobiographical-memory-flexibility-in-iranian-trauma-survivors-with-posttraumatic-stress-disorder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icss.ac.ir\/en\/impaired-autobiographical-memory-flexibility-in-iranian-trauma-survivors-with-posttraumatic-stress-disorder\/","title":{"rendered":"Impaired Autobiographical Memory Flexibility in Iranian Trauma Survivors With Posttraumatic Stress Disorder"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Reduced ability to retrieve specific autobiographical memories is a well-defined feature of posttraumatic stress disorder\u00a0 (PTSD), and science-driven interventions have emerged to improve memory specificity and thereby symptoms.\u00a0 However, research in depressed samples indicates that the ability to flexibly move between retrieval of specific and\u00a0 general memory types (i.e., memory flexibility) may more accurately conceptualize autobiographical memory deficits\u00a0 in emotional disturbance. In this study, we evaluated memory specificity and memory flexibility in Iranian trauma\u00a0 survivors (<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">N <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">= <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">63) with and without PTSD relative to community control participants. Trauma-exposed participants had\u00a0 experienced a serious road-traffic accident. Results indicated that individuals with PTSD experienced reduced memory\u00a0 specificity and memory flexibility relative to trauma-exposed participants and community control participants. A small\u00a0 sample size limits the strength of conclusions, although good statistical power was obtained. Findings suggest that\u00a0 reduced memory flexibility may be a transdiagnostic marker of emotional disturbance and support further development\u00a0 of memory flexibility interventions for PTSD.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Authors:<\/strong> <span class=\"contribDegrees\">Maryam Piltan<\/span>,\u00a0<strong><span class=\"contribDegrees\">Ali Reza Moradi<\/span><\/strong>,\u00a0<span class=\"contribDegrees\">Mohammad Hassan Choobin<\/span>, Parviz Azadfallah,\u00a0<span class=\"contribDegrees\">Sara Eskandari<\/span>,\u00a0<span class=\"contribDegrees\">Caitlin Hitchcock<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177%2F2167702620953637\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177%2F2167702620953637<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reduced ability to retrieve specific autobiographical memories is a well-defined feature of posttraumatic stress disorder\u00a0 (PTSD), and science-driven interventions have emerged to improve memory specificity and thereby symptoms.\u00a0 However, research in depressed samples indicates that the ability to flexibly move between retrieval of specific and\u00a0 general memory types (i.e., memory flexibility) may more accurately conceptualize autobiographical memory deficits\u00a0 in emotional disturbance. In this study, we evaluated memory specificity and memory flexibility in Iranian trauma\u00a0 survivors (N = 63) with and without PTSD relative to community control participants. Trauma-exposed participants had\u00a0 experienced a serious road-traffic accident. Results indicated that individuals with PTSD experienced reduced memory\u00a0 specificity and memory flexibility relative to trauma-exposed participants and community control participants. A small\u00a0 sample size limits the strength of conclusions, although good statistical power was obtained. Findings suggest that\u00a0 reduced memory flexibility may be a transdiagnostic marker of emotional disturbance and support further development\u00a0 of memory flexibility interventions for PTSD. &nbsp; Authors: Maryam Piltan,\u00a0Ali Reza Moradi,\u00a0Mohammad Hassan Choobin, Parviz Azadfallah,\u00a0Sara Eskandari,\u00a0Caitlin Hitchcock https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177%2F2167702620953637<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3481,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icss.ac.ir\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icss.ac.ir\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icss.ac.ir\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icss.ac.ir\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icss.ac.ir\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3485"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/icss.ac.ir\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3494,"href":"https:\/\/icss.ac.ir\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3485\/revisions\/3494"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icss.ac.ir\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icss.ac.ir\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icss.ac.ir\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icss.ac.ir\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}