PMID- 16013784
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20051004
LR  - 20191109
IS  - 1090-0586 (Print)
IS  - 1090-0586 (Linking)
VI  - 30
IP  - 2
DP  - 2005 Jun
TI  - Psychophysiological assessment of youthful motor vehicle accident survivors.
PG  - 115-23
AB  - Twenty-one children and adolescents (age range 8-17, mean 12.7 years) who had 
      been in motor vehicle accidents (MVAs), and 14 non-MVA controls matched for age 
      and gender, underwent a psychophysiological assessment in which heart rate, 
      systolic and diastolic blood pressure, and skin conductance were measured during 
      baseline and two stressor phases: mental arithmetic and listening to and 
      imagining a MVA like their own. The eight youth who currently met criteria for 
      PTSD or sub-syndromal PTSD significantly reported more subjective distress to the 
      MVA audiotape than the 13 MVA non-PTSD youth or the 14 non-MVA controls. All 
      groups responded physiologically to the mental arithmetic. However, in contrast 
      to expectations, there were no differential physiological responses among the 
      groups to the stimuli reminiscent of the trauma. Possible explanations are 
      explored.
FAU - Jones-Alexander, Jacqueline
AU  - Jones-Alexander J
AD  - Center for Stress and Anxiety Disorders, University at Albany, Albany, USA.
FAU - Blanchard, Edward B
AU  - Blanchard EB
FAU - Hickling, Edward J
AU  - Hickling EJ
LA  - eng
GR  - MH-48476/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/United States
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
PT  - Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.
PL  - Germany
TA  - Appl Psychophysiol Biofeedback
JT  - Applied psychophysiology and biofeedback
JID - 9712383
SB  - IM
MH  - *Accidents, Traffic
MH  - Adolescent
MH  - Child
MH  - Female
MH  - Hemodynamics/physiology
MH  - Humans
MH  - Male
MH  - Psychophysiology
MH  - Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic/epidemiology/physiopathology/psychology
MH  - Survivors/*psychology
EDAT- 2005/07/15 09:00
MHDA- 2005/10/05 09:00
CRDT- 2005/07/15 09:00
PHST- 2005/07/15 09:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2005/10/05 09:00 [medline]
PHST- 2005/07/15 09:00 [entrez]
AID - 10.1007/s10484-005-4307-8 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Appl Psychophysiol Biofeedback. 2005 Jun;30(2):115-23. doi: 
      10.1007/s10484-005-4307-8.