Schweizer, S;
Samimi, Z;
Hasani, J;
Moradi, A;
Mirdoraghi, F;
Khaleghi, M;
(2017)
Improving cognitive control in adolescents with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
Behaviour Research and Therapy
, 93
pp. 88-94.
10.1016/j.brat.2017.03.017.
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Abstract
The adverse impact of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) on the developing mind in adolescence can extend well into adulthood. The developmental malleability of cognitive control capacity in this age group, however, may hold particular promise for cognitive training interventions. The present study investigated the effects of affective working memory (aWMT) compared to placebo-training on cognitive and affective functioning in adolescents with PTSD. 30 treatment-seeking adolescents trained for 20 days on either an affective dual n-back task (aWMT; n = 15) or a feature match task (placebo; n = 15). The aWMT group showed greater pre-to post-training increases in cognitive control as measured by the GoNogo task as well as improvements in symptoms of PTSD and increased use of adaptive emotion regulation strategies. These preliminary findings are promising given the potential for free and easy dissemination of the aWMT in schools and online.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Improving cognitive control in adolescents with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) |
| Location: | England |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.brat.2017.03.017 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brat.2017.03.017 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2017 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
| Keywords: | Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), Cognitive control, Emotion regulation, Adolescence, Emotion, Affective working memory, Cognitive control training |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10050327 |
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