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Diminished biological arousal before global pandemic may predict PTSD symptoms – News-Medical.net
People who did not have a large heart rate response to a stress task surprised researchers later — after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic — when they showed more symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder related to the crisis than others who also did the…
Reviewed by Emily Henderson, B.Sc.Sep 1 2020
People who did not have a large heart rate response to a stress task surprised researchers later — after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic — when they showed more symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder related to the crisis than others who also did the stress task and COVID-19 stress ratings.
Researchers had anticipated that the reverse would be true — that those with higher heart rate reactions to the stress task would experience more distr…
