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  • Psychology
  • Trauma Studies

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  • Interpersonal touch is typically comforting but affectively ambiguous for individuals with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) resulting from interpersonal trauma.
  • Understanding the impact of touch on PTSD patients is crucial for therapeutic interventions.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the experience and neural processing of interpersonal and impersonal touch in patients with PTSD compared to healthy controls.
  • To explore the neural mechanisms underlying touch aversion in PTSD.

Main Methods:

  • Two studies were conducted comparing PTSD patients and healthy controls.
  • Participants experienced various types of interpersonal and impersonal touch while neural activation was measured.

Main Results:

  • PTSD patients disliked interpersonal touch, unlike healthy controls who appreciated it.
  • Neural activation patterns differed significantly between groups for interpersonal touch, notably showing reduced hippocampal response in patients.
  • This hippocampal response reduction correlated with negative alterations and arousal symptoms in PTSD patients.

Conclusions:

  • The aversion to interpersonal touch in PTSD patients may stem from an attempt to suppress traumatic memories triggered by touch.
  • Hippocampal suppression is a potential mechanism maintaining this aversion in individuals with interpersonal trauma-related PTSD.