Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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10454285 | Biological Psychology | 2012 | 9 Pages |
Abstract
⺠As in adults, children and adolescents exhibited greater late positive potentials and larger skin conductance responses to pictures indicating threat, relative to non-threat. ⺠Children and adolescents exhibited less recovery from initial heart rate deceleration in response to threat-related pictures, relative to non-threat pictures. ⺠At follow-up, skin conductance responses in non-traumatized children and adolescents habituated, whereas children with PTSD maintained larger responses to threat-related pictures compared to non-threat pictures. ⺠Children with PTSD generated greater acoustic startle reflexes than non-traumatized children. ⺠Psychotherapy did not appear to influence electrophysiological measures.
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Authors
Damion J. Grasso, Robert F. Simons,