Roberto La Marca

Cardiovascular and psychological responses to voluntary recall of trauma in posttraumatic stress disorder.

European Journal of Psychotraumatology June 4, 2018 Chia-Ying Chou, Roberto La Marca, Andrew Steptoe et al.

Voluntary recall of trauma is a key element in exposure-based psychotherapies and can trigger spontaneous dissociative responses such as flashbacks, depersonalisation, and derealisation. In order to examine the associations between cardiovascular and psychological responses to voluntary recollection of trauma, individuals with PTSD recalled a traumatic memory. Heart rate and heart rate...