04/25/2022
✨Lab Spotlight✨
Check out this paper by the MINDSET Lab, which was recently accepted for publication! 🎉 Congratulations to Sarah Prieto, Jena Moody, Kate Valerio, and Dr. Jasmeet Hayes!
🔺Title: Posttraumatic stress disorder symptom severity is associated with reduced outcomes on the MoCA in a sample of Vietnam Veterans
❓Purpose: To examine if exposure to life stressors influences cognition to the same extent as PTSD symptoms. Studied 274 Vietnam War Veterans
🔎 Results: PTSD symptom severity, but not total number of stressful events, was associated with poorer cognitive performance on the MoCA
❗️Major takeaway: Cognitive performance is disrupted by *persistent and severe stress symptoms* following a traumatic event, rather than exposure to multiple stressful events.
The paper is in press at the Journal of Traumatic Stress (doi.org/10.1002/jts.22830)