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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"intrusive memories"”.
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Intrusive Memories, Coping And Outcome In Depression: Towards A Traumatic Processing Model?
… noted the presence of high levels of disturbing intrusive memories in depressed women. Intrusive memories are best known as a post-traumatic symptom and have received considerable attention from researchers in this field. The presence of a post-traumatic symptom in depression indicates that …
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OFFENDER MEMORIES OF THEIR CRIMES: EXPLORING THE FACTORS INVOLVED IN THE EXPERIENCE OF INTRUSIVE MEMORIES
… of the current study was to examine offenders’ memories about their crimes, and explored potential factors involved in the experience of intrusive memories. Method: One hundred adult male offenders serving provincial sentences completed a questionnaire package examining offence-related shame, …
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Examining the Impact of Guided Memory Retrieval on Intrusive Memories: An Online Trauma Film Paradigm Study
Intrusive memories are a cardinal symptom of chronic post-traumatic mental health problems (e.g., Brewin et al., 2010). Post-event memory processing may be a key facilitator of remission of intrusive memories (Marks et al., 2018). Contextual processing has been proposed to decrease unwanted …
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Neural Processes Underlying the Intrusion of Unwanted Memories
While memory retrieval is often voluntary, memories can also intrude into awareness against our will, disrupting ongoing cognitive processes and causing distress. Intrusive memories are a hallmark of a variety of psychiatric disorders, including post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety, and …
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Intrusive cognitions, anxiety and cancer
… symptoms associated with PTSD such as intrusive cognitions may be critical in understanding psychological distress in cancer patients. Research has found that cancer patients experience negative intrusive thoughts, which are associated with marked distress. However, studies have rarely …
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Forgetfulness of Things Past: The Impact of Suppression and Metacognitive Beliefs on the Intrusion of Autobiographical and Non-Autobiographical Memories
… Importantly, repetitive negative thoughts and memories play a major role in psychopathology and represent a fundamental transdiagnostic process which deserves experimental and clinical attention. Inhibitory deficits on the one hand and metacognitive beliefs on the other are thought to play a …
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Fear Not: Exploring the Role of Memory Suppression During Pavlovian Fear Extinction
… is a cognitive process whereby unwelcome memories intruding into our awareness are pushed out of mind, allowing us to regain control over the contents of our consciousness. Pavlovian fear extinction, on the other hand, refers to the waning of a developed fear. When something once signalled …
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Post-traumatic reactions in parents following admission of their child to the Intensive Care Unit
… including Tetris gameplay to prevent intrusive trauma memories in parents whose child has been admitted to the Paediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU).</p><p class="MsoNormal">Method:</p><p class="MsoNormal">Nineteen parents, recruited from a regional children’s hospital, were randomly …
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Suppressing What Hurts: The Role of Prefrontal-Thalamic Pathways in Inhibitory Control of Intrusive Thoughts and Conditioned Fear
… is confronted with unwanted thoughts and intrusive memories. Prior research has implicated prefrontal-hippocampal interactions mediating suppression in humans; however, the precise neural pathway(s) remain unknown. Converging anatomical and functional evidence in rodents and more recently …
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The pathophysiological mechanisms underlying metamemory disruptions
… (‘anxious-depression’, ‘compulsivity and intrusive thought’, and ‘social withdrawal’) were incorporated into Chapters 2 and 3. Throughout the thesis, metacognitive metrics were quantified using a metamemory task that involved the encoding of stimuli followed by a test requiring …
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The Impact of Emotion on Associative Memory
… to a traumatic event and is characterised by intrusive memories and disorganised recall of the trauma. One theory about PTSD, the dual representation account, posits that PTSD symptoms arise due to an inability to store the trauma within a coherent spatiotemporal representation because of a …