Dissecting Fear and Emotional Pain in PTSD: From Symptom Networks to Neural Signatures (IMAGE)
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A new study in Biological Psychiatry, published by Elsevier, challenges the long-held view of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) as a fear-based disorder. In the study, 68% of trauma-exposed individuals reported that emotional pain impaired their daily functioning more than fear. This network illustrates the relationships between fear (red), emotional pain (orange), and specific PTSD symptoms (light blue) based on the 20 items of the PCL-5 (checklist for DSM-5) questionnaire. Blue lines represent positive associations, while red lines indicate negative associations, with the thickness of the lines corresponding to the magnitude of the partial correlations.
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Biological Psychiatry / Ben-Zion et al.
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