@article{ref1,
title="Inhibitory control under threat: the role of spontaneous eye blinks in post-traumatic stress disorder",
journal="Brain sciences",
year="2017",
author="Rubin, Mikael and Hien, Denise and Das, Dipanjana and Melara, Robert",
volume="7",
number="2",
pages="e16-e16",
abstract="This study is the first to explore spontaneous eye blink rate (sEBR) in individuals with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). We investigated the connection between the magnitude of flanker interference in PTSD participants and sEBR during performance on a modified version of the Eriksen flanker task. As a peripheral measure of cognitive control and dopaminergic function, sEBR may illuminate the relationship between PTSD and executive function. <br><br>FINDINGS revealed a positive relationship between sEBR and flanker interference in participants diagnosed with PTSD, to both threat-related and neutral stimuli, whereas this relationship was negative in participants exposed to trauma but without PTSD and in healthy controls. Although our results are suggestive of sEBR as a potential physiological index of emotional management in PTSD, most of the correlations were not significant, indicating that further research with a larger sample is needed.   Keywords: post-traumatic stress disorder; spontaneous eye blink rate; trauma exposure; flanker interference; cognitive control; inhibitory control<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="2076-3425",
doi="10.3390/brainsci7020016",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/brainsci7020016"
}