Combat veterans who have sustained a traumatic brain injury (TBI) can show impairments in behavioral and cognitive control and increases in impulsivity. In addition, many with mild TBI will also have post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). To improve diagnostic capabilities and better define treatment alternatives, it is important to determine the unique (and shared) contributions of each disorder to deficits in cognitive function and emotional control. Three specific control functions are ...
In an emotional Stroop task, combat-related words were more distracting for Veterans with PTSD than for those without. We believe the test is a suitable measure of emotional reactivity and attentional bias that can be obtained before and after behavioral and pharmacological therapies. In addition, the patients showed a substantial deficit in motor response inhibition. Greater PTSD and depressive symptoms were both associated with worse performance on the motor task. ...
In an emotional Stroop task, combat-related words were more distracting for Veterans with PTSD than for those without. We believe the test is a suitable measure of emotional reactivity and attentional bias that can be obtained before and after behavioral and pharmacological therapies. In addition, the patients showed a substantial deficit in motor response inhibition. Greater PTSD and depressive symptoms were both associated with worse performance on the motor task. ...
The emotional Stroop task with combat-related words was shown to be a robust and sensitive measure of attentional bias to trauma-relevant material in OEF/OIF Veterans with PTSD. It shows promise as an objective behavioral test that might be able to distinguish between OEF/OIF combat Veterans with a PTSD diagnosis and those without. However, the results should be interpreted with caution until a sufficiently large control group of demographicallymatched Veterans is ...
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