PTSD: Neuroscience of memory perspective

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Key texts

Papers

• Fletcher, T. and Cahill, L. (2002). Propranolol for reemergent posttraumatic stress disorder following an event of retraumatization: a case study. Journal of Traumatic Stress 15, 433-37.
• Pitman, R. K. and Orr, S. P., (1995) Psychophysiology of emotional memory networks in posttraumatic stress disorder. In McGaugh, J. L., Weinberger, N. M. and Lynch, G. (eds.), Brain and Memory: Modulation and Mediation of Neuroplasticity, Oxford University Press, New York.
• Pitman, R. K., Sanders, K. M., Zusman, R. M., Healy, A. R., Cheema, F., Lasko, N. B., Cahill, L. and Orr, S. P. (2002). Pilot study of secondary prevention of posttraumatic stress disorder with propranolol, Biological Psychiatry 51, 189-92.
• Reist, C., Duffy, J. G., Fujimoto, K. and Cahill, L. (2001). Beta-adrenergic blockade and emotional memory in PTSD, International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology 4 377-83
• Schelling, G. (2002). Effects of stress hormones on traumatic memory formation and the development of posttraumatic stress disorder in critically ill patients, Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 78, 596-609.
• Vaiva, G., Ducrocq, F., Jezequel, K., Averland, B., Lestavel, P., Brunet, A., Marmar, C. R. (2002). Peritraumatic prescription of propranolol decreases acute PTSD symptoms, International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (ISTSS), Baltimore.