Dissociative episodes and concurrent heart rate in patients with PTSD - An ecological momentary assessment.
Psychiatry Research 2025 Sarah Beutler-Traktovenko, Marcel Franz, Judith Daniels et al.
Dissociative symptoms are a frequent complication in posttraumatic stress disorders affecting about a third of all PTSD patients. While theoretical models predict a physiological hypoarousal during posttraumatic dissociations, empirical evidence is lacking. We addressed this by studying spontaneously occurring dissociative symptoms and related heart rate changes in an ecological momentary...