Psychophysiological activation via trauma script in PTSD patients and matched healthy controls and its reversal after succesful treatment

It is well known that hyperarousal in PTSD patients leads to an increase in heart rate to trauma related stimuli. The purpose of this study was to see if this peripheral physiological activation in PTSD patients by a trauma script can be reversed by successful trauma treatment including EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing).

Conference

English

Friedhelm Lamprecht
Martin Sack
Wolfgang Lempa
Sabine Eickhoff-Fels

Lamprecht, F., Sack, M., Lempa, W., & Eickhoff-Fels, S. (2001). Psychophysiological activation via trauma script in PTSD patients and matched healty controls and its reversal after succesful treatment. Presentation at the annual meeting of the German Society for Psychotraumatology