title: Veridical and false memory for scenic material in posttraumatic stress disorder.
abstract: The question whether memory aberrations in posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) also manifest as an increased production of false memories is important for both theoretical and practical reasons, but is yet unsolved. Therefore, for the present study we investigated veridical and false recognition in PTSD with a new scenic variant of the Deese-Roediger-McDermott (DRM) paradigm, which was administered to traumatized individuals with PTSD (n=32), traumatized individuals without PTSD (n=30), and non-traumatized controls (n=30). The PTSD group neither produced higher rates of false memories nor expressed more confidence in errors, but did show inferior memory sensitivity. Whereas depressive symptoms did not correlate with veridical nor false recognition, state dissociation was positively associated with false memories.
authors.affiliation: University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Martinistr. 52, 20246 Hamburg, Germany. m.hauschildt@uke.de
authors.forename: Marit
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hauschildt
authors.forename: Maarten J V
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Peters
authors.forename: Lena
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Jelinek
authors.forename: Steffen
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Moritz
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001143:Arousal; D016022:Case-Control Studies; D004213:Dissociative Disorders / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D005858:Germany; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011939:Mental Recall; D021641:Recognition, Psychology; D012094:Repression, Psychology; D013313:Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic / Q000523:psychology*