Citation

Gurvits TV, Lasko NB, Repak AL, Metzger LJ, Orr SP, Pitman RK. Psychiatry Res. 2002; 112(3): 263-268.

Affiliation

VA Research Service, 718 Smyth Rd, Manchester, NH 03104, USA. tamara@metro2000.net

Copyright

(Copyright © 2002, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

12450636

Abstract

The ability to copy figures was evaluated in 41 subjects with chronic posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and 27 trauma-exposed, non-PTSD comparison subjects. Individuals with PTSD demonstrated significantly impaired performance. However, after adjusting for pre-trauma variables, there was only a marginally significant association between figure-copying performance and PTSD. These findings are consistent with pre-trauma visual-spatial impairment as being among the risk factors for chronic PTSD.

Language: en