APS
29th APS Annual Convention · 2017
Startle Reactivity in Gulf-War Veterans with PTSD
- Andrea Niles
University of California, San Francisco - Adam Luxenberg
University of California, San Francisco - Thomas Neylan
University of California, San Francisco - Sabra Inslicht
University of California, San Francisco - Metzler Thomas
University of California, San Francisco - Jennifer Hlavin
University of California, San Francisco - Jersey Deng
University of California, San Francisco - Michael Weiner
University of California, San Francisco - Aoife O'Donovan
University of California, San Francisco
Abstract
We compared startle responses among veterans with current, past, or no history of PTSD. People with current PTSD showed greater heart rate and skin conductance reactivity to startle compared to those without PTSD. Those with past PTSD fell somewhere in between the two other groups.
Psychopathology
