Fear conditioning and early life vulnerabilities: two distinct pathways of emotional dysregulation and brain dysfunction in PTSD
The newly proposed criteria for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM-V) include dysregulation of a variety of emotional states including fear, anger, guilt, and shame, in addition to dissociation and numbing. Consistent with these revisions, we postulate...
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| Format: | Online |
| Language: | English |
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Co-Action Publishing
2010
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| Online Access: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3401986/ |
| Summary: | The newly proposed criteria for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in the Diagnostic and Statistical
Manual (DSM-V) include dysregulation of a variety of emotional states including fear, anger, guilt, and
shame, in addition to dissociation and numbing. Consistent with these revisions, we postulate two models of emotion dysregulation in PTSD in which fear is not the prevailing emotion but is only one of several
components implicated in a dysregulated emotional system that also mediates problems regulating anger,
guilt, shame, dissociation, and numbing. |
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