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Front Psychiatry. 2018 Sep 05;9:311. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2018.00311. eCollection 2018.

Stressful Life Memories Relate to Ruminative Thoughts in Women With Sexual Violence History, Irrespective of PTSD.

Frontiers in psychiatry

Emma M Millon, Han Yan M Chang, Tracey J Shors

Affiliations

  1. Behavioral and Systems Neuroscience, Department of Psychology, Center for Collaborative Neuroscience, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ, United States.

PMID: 30233419 PMCID: PMC6134204 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2018.00311

Abstract

More than one in every four women in the world experience sexual violence (SV) in their lifetime, most often as teenagers and young adults. These traumatic experiences leave memories in the brain, which are difficult if not impossible to forget. We asked whether women with SV history experience stronger memories of their most stressful life event than women without SV history and if so, whether strength relates to ruminative and trauma-related thoughts. Using the Autobiographical Memory Questionnaire (AMQ), women with SV history (

Keywords: PTSD; depression; fear; memory; rumination; sexual violence; stress; trauma

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