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Showing 1 to 20 of 39 for “"Hyperarousal"”.
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Child maltreatment and its consequences. How child maltreatment experiences are connected to sleep, stress, and love
… with a lower quality of sleep when grown up. The hyperarousal concept of insomnia is a widely accepted approach to explain difficulties with sleep initiation and maintenance. The model postulates that individuals suffering from insomnia have an increased baseline arousability on different levels. …
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Improving Understanding of Cognitive Processing Therapy: Patterns and Predictors of Symptom Change
… using three cross-lagged panel analyses. Hyperarousal, avoidance, and re-experiencing symptoms were entered as a predictor of subsequent change in the PTSD symptom criteria. A logarithmic pattern of change was found for all symptom criteria. Hyperarousal symptoms predicted and temporally …
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Utilizing Retrospective Accounts of Primary Symptom-Clusters to Predict PTSD over Time in Women Survivors of Domestic or Sexual Assault
… suggest that the re-experiencing (Cluster B) and hyperarousal (Cluster E) symptoms are common reactions after traumatic events, while hyperarousal and negative cognitions and mood (Cluster D) clusters are generally identified as the most important and/or predictive. Thus, this dissertation …
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Translational Neuroimaging of Emotion Processes in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Depression
… (Study 2). Results showed re-experiencing and hyperarousal symptoms had opponent effects on neural habituation to negative images, such that while increasing severity of hyperarousal symptoms was related to diminished habituation, increasing severity of re-experiencing symptoms was associated …
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Vicarious Traumatization in Therapists: Contributing Factors, PTSD Symptomatology, and Cognitive Distortions
… to trauma and perceived social support predict hyperarousal symptoms and cognitive distortions above and beyond the effects of therapists' personal variables. Qualitative results revealed the importance of maintaining a balance between professional and personal support, a holistic attention to …
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Neuropsychological effects of anxiety without depression on facial affect perception
… of concurrent anterior dysfunction and posterior hyperarousal are discussed.
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Cardiovascular Risk Indicators and Health-Related Quality of Life in Women Veterans with PTSD
… quality of life. Contrary to expectations, the hyperarousal symptom criteria group was not found to be a significant and unique predictor of sympathetic nervous system activity indicators nor health related quality of life. However, clinician-rated non-hyperarousal PTSD symptom severity was …
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Hurt people who hurt people: anger and violence among individuals with substance use disorder and post traumatic stress disorder
… substance use and other comorbidity, PTSD hyperarousal symptoms and trait physical aggression were found to be independent predictors of violence in both the cross-sectional and longitudinal analysis. It is concluded that PTSD hyperarousal symptoms specifically need to be addressed by …
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Treatment Matching in PTSD: A Confirmatory Factor Analysis Based On Therapeutic Mechanisms of Action
… more overt symptoms of PTSD (e.g., persistent hyperarousal), secondary cognitive symptoms have also been shown to be significantly associated with avoidance and intrusive symptoms, as well as contribute to functional impairment. Based on the factor analytic and treatment literature for PTSD, it …
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The role of nocturnal cognitive arousal in the complaint of insomnia among older adults
Recent conceptualizations implicate cognitive hyperarousal in the etiology and maintenance of insomnia and suggest that negative cognitive activity acts as mediator between personality factors and negative affect on the one hand, and insomnia complaints and poor daytime functioning on the other. …
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Investigating Racial and Ethnic Differences in Help-Seeking Recommendations and Intentions for Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms and Symptom Clusters
… avoidance, negative thoughts and cognitions, and hyperarousal). Participants read a vignette describing an individual experiencing PTSS and reported their likelihood of recommending help for others and seeking help for themselves. Results indicated no significant ethnoracial differences in …
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Veterans Using Mindfulness Practice To Cope With Trauma & Operational Stress Injuries
… coping skills to manage symptoms such as hyperarousal, intrusive recollections, and avoidance. The studies that were analyzed reported on veterans who have served in the U.S. Armed Forces and have used mindfulness-based interventions to manage symptoms relating to PTSD. Data collected …
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Neurophysiological evaluation of sensory gating and selective attention in schizotypal personality
… The schizotypal group was characterized by hyperarousal as indexed by shorter latencies of most ERP components, selective dishabituation of the orienting response to the rare salient stimuli, response-set deficits, intrusion effects, as well as large post-response cognitive processing of …
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Biased Attentional Processing for Negative Emotion and Youth Internalizing Psychopathology: The Role of Attentional Control Deficits
… anxiety, as well as symptoms of physiological hyperarousal that are specific to anxiety. Overall, findings further clarify what specific components of attentional control deficits underlie biased attentional processing, a well-established cognitive mechanism of internalizing disorders.</p>
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Sexual Harassment -Related Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: An Investigation of Symptom Structure and Criterion A
… model with re-experiencing, avoidance, and hyperarousal symptom clusters, but recent research suggests that a 4-factor model provides better model-data fit. Second, what constitutes a potential trauma (Criterion A1)? Does it need to be a high-magnitude event (e.g., rape), or can …
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Sleep under stress: the complex web of fear, hypervigilance and mental health in a low socioeconomic status community in South Africa
… been included as a contributing factor in the hyperarousal model of insomnia.
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Altered Neural and Behavioral Associability-Based Learning in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
… increased with PTSD severity, particularly with hyperarousal symptoms, and that the interaction of PTSD severity and neural markers of associability based learning predicted behavior. In contrast, PTSD severity did not modulate prediction error neural signal or behavioral learning rate. These …
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Comorbid Anxiety and Depression: Do they Cluster as Distinct Groups in Youth?
… by their unique features of physiological hyperarousal (anxiety) and low positive affect (depression). Factor analytic research has shown that anxious symptoms and depressive symptoms can be structurally distinguished and research on the tripartite model has suggested their conceptual …
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Psychometric properties and factor structure of the computerized PTSD scale -multimedia version among adult samples reporting trauma
… (Cl-C2), dysphoria (C3-C7 & Dl-D3), and hyperarousal (D4- D5) provided the best fit to the data.</p>
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Parallel Processes of Posttraumatic Stress and Metabolic Dysfunction: Long-Term Costs of Trauma on the Psychological and Physical Health of 9/11 Survivors
… of PTSD symptoms predicted the slope of MetC. Hyperarousal (<em>ß</em>=.172) and emotional numbing (<em>ß</em>=.171) PTSD symptoms demonstrated the strongest association with the growth of MetC over and above the effects of general psychological distress, smoking history, and alcohol use when …
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