Although certain changes in the brain may reflect fear learning, there are no known markers that indicate whether an aversive experience will develop into fear memory. We examined the moment-to-moment dynamics of human fear learning by applying multi-voxel pattern analysis to single-trial blood oxygen level-dependent magnetic resonance imaging data. We found that the long-term behavioral expression of fear memory could be predicted from neural patterns at the time of learning.

Background Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is thought to be characterized by general heightened amygdala activation. However, this hypothesis is mainly based on specific studies presenting fear or trauma-related stimuli, hence, a thorough investigation of trauma-unrelated emotional processing in PTSD is needed.Methods In this study, 31 male medication-naive veterans with PTSD, 28 male control veterans (combat controls, CC) and 25 non-military men (healthy controls, HC) were included.

Objective: Disturbances in self-referential processing (SRP) are increasingly recognized in post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). In healthy adults, SRP tasks engage the medial prefrontal cortex (MPFC) and posterior cingulate cortex (PCC) brain regions that have shown altered function in PTSD. We hypothesized that individuals with PTSD would differ from controls in functional activation of the MPFC and PCC during SRP. Method: We compared neural activation in healthy controls (n = 15) and participants with PTSD (n = 20) during a SRP task, using fMRI at .0T.

Although recent research has begun to describe the neural and genetic processes underlying variability in responses to trauma, less is known about how these processes interact. We addressed this issue by using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to examine the relationship between post-traumatic stress symptomatology (PTSS), a common genetic polymorphism of the serotonin transporter (5-HTT) gene, and neural activity in response to viewing images associated with the 9/11 terrorist attack among a rare sample of high-exposure 9/11 survivors (n=17).

Zo'n 25.000 Nederlanders vochten tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog vrijwillig in de Duitse Waffen-SS. In de literatuur en media wordt vaak een beeld geschetst alsof zij slechts gewone soldaten waren, die niet betrokken zijn geweest bij oorlogsmisdaden of genocide. Dagboekfragmenten bewijzen het tegendeel.

In de afgelopen decennia groeiden Vught, Amersfoort en Westerbork uit tot professionele museale gedenkplaatsen die niet alleen inzetten op herdenken, maar ook op begrijpen en onderwijzen. De auteur bespreekt het boek van Roel Hijink 'Voormalige concentratiekampen. De monumentalisering van de Duitse kampen in Nederland' en voegt er zijn Vlaamse visie op de Nederlandse herdenkingscultuur aan toe.

Narrative Exposure Therapy (NET) is an intervention for the treatment of survivors of multiple and severe traumatic events. NET is working through the biography with a focus on trauma and can provide considerable relief after only a few sessions. This new edition provides a new conceptual ubderstanding of complex and social trauma. Part I describes the theoretical background. Part II shows how to use the NET approach step by step, with practical advise and tools.

Clinically depressed individuals have consistently been shown to demonstrate a bias for overgeneral autobiographical memory (ABM) disclosure, a strategy used to protect against the access of intense, primary emotions that may accompany specific memories. The present study examined how ABM specificity in client narratives was related to expressed emotional arousal in brief emotion-focused and client-centred psychotherapy for depression.

Zes van de zeven Nederlanders zijn na 5 mei 1945 geboren. Van niet veel meer dan een op de twintig Nederlanders kan gezegd worden dat ze de Tweede Wereldoorlog bewust hebben meegemaakt Nog niet een op de honderd inwoners van nu was volwassen toen in 1940 de oorlog en de bezetting begon. Het Comité 4 en 5 mei laat daarom ieder jaar onderzoeken wat het draagvlak voor vieren en herdenken is.

Verkorte weergave van de oratie uitgesproken door Edwin Bakker bij de gelegenheid van het aanvaarden van het hoogleraarsambt met als leeropdracht Terrorisme en Contraterrorisme aan de Universiteit van Leiden.