Attention allocation in posttraumatic stress disorder: an eye-tracking study.

Amit LazarovBenjamin Suarez-JimenezXi ZhuDaniel S PineYair Bar-HaimYuval Neria

Published in: Psychological medicine (2021)

Sustained attention on negatively-valenced stimuli emerges as a potential target for therapeutic intervention in PTSD designed to divert attention away from negatively-valenced stimuli and toward neutral ones.

Keyphrases

posttraumatic stress disorder
working memory
randomized controlled trial
risk assessment
human health
depressive symptoms