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Performance on visuospatial copying tasks in individuals with chronic posttraumatic stress disorder
Tamara V Gurvits1, Natasha B Lasko, Ann L Repak
1VA Research Service, 718 Smyth Rd, Manchester, NH 03104, USA. tamara@metro2000.net
Psychiatry Research
|November 27, 2002
Abstract:
The ability to copy figures was evaluated in 41 subjects with chronic posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and 27 trauma-exposed, non-PTSD comparison subjects. Individuals with PTSD demonstrated significantly impaired performance. However, after adjusting for pre-trauma variables, there was only a marginally significant association between figure-copying performance and PTSD. These findings are consistent with pre-trauma visual-spatial impairment as being among the risk factors for chronic PTSD.