THE PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY OF MOTOR-VEHICLE ACCIDENT RELATED POSTTRAUMATIC-STRESS-DISORDER
THE PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY OF MOTOR-VEHICLE ACCIDENT RELATED POSTTRAUMATIC-STRESS-DISORDER
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DOI:
10.1016/s0005-7894(05)80157-1
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发表时间:
1994-06-01
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影响因子:
3.7
通讯作者:
GERARDI, RJ
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作者:
BLANCHARD, EB;HICKLING, EJ;GERARDI, RJ
Fifty victims of recent motor vehicle accidents (MVAs) and 40 non-MVA controls participated in a psychophysiological assessment in which heart rate (HR), systolic and diastolic blood pressures, forehead EMG and electrodermal activity were measured during mental arithmetic, idiosyncratic audiotaped descriptions of the victim's own MVA, and a standard videotape of MVAs. The MVA victims were subdivided into 23 with full posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), 10 with sub-syndromal PTSD, and 17 without PTSD. HR response to the idiosyncratic audiotape reliably (p < .01) discriminated the full PTSDs from the other 3 groups; 74% of these subjects responded as compared to from 40% to 24% of the other 3 groups. It appears that HR response to idiosyncratic audiotapes has diagnostic clinical utility at the level of the individual subject.