@article{ref1,
title="Prior peritraumatic dissociative experiences affect autonomic reactivity during trauma recall",
journal="Journal of trauma and dissociation",
year="2012",
author="Sledjeski, Eve M. and Delahanty, Douglas L.",
volume="13",
number="1",
pages="32-50",
abstract="To better understand the psychophysiological correlates of peritraumatic dissociation (PD), the present study examined the relationship between reports of prior PD and sympathetic and parasympathetic functioning in response to a laboratory stress paradigm in 39 traumatized female undergraduates. Participants were asked to talk about their most distressing traumatizing experience while continuous measures of heart rate, pre-ejection period, and respiratory sinus arrhythmia were taken. Overall, high dissociators had significantly larger increases in heart rate and larger decreases in pre-ejection period and respiratory sinus arrhythmia during trauma recall. In opposition to our hypothesis, these results suggest that female trauma victims reporting high levels of PD during a prior trauma may be more reactive to traumatic reminders than victims who report lower levels of PD.<p />",
language="en",
issn="1529-9732",
doi="10.1080/15299732.2011.608628",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15299732.2011.608628"
}