{"id":2760,"date":"2014-08-13T13:07:18","date_gmt":"2014-08-13T18:07:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=2760"},"modified":"2014-08-13T11:25:04","modified_gmt":"2014-08-13T16:25:04","slug":"terrifying-airplane-flight-offers-unique-insight-into-ptsd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/terrifying-airplane-flight-offers-unique-insight-into-ptsd\/","title":{"rendered":"Terrifying airplane flight offers unique insight into PTSD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-110\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\" alt=\"SMCC-english2\" width=\"255\" height=\"126\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\">A terrifying near-accident on an airplane has offered new insight on how a person\u2019s memory processes influence the risk of developing post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD.)\u00a0In 2001, Air Transat flight 236 nearly crashed into the Atlantic Ocean after running out of fuel; at the last minute the pilot was able to land safely on a small island military base in the Azores. <\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\">One of the passengers, Mary McKinnon, a graduate student at the University of Toronto, recognized the opportunity to study a group of people exposed to the same traumatic event. Interviews with 15 passengers revealed that those who developed PTSD were able recall a higher number of details external to the main event. <\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\">This altered memory processing may be a vulnerability factor for PTSD.<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\">The original research paper is available on request and was<\/span>\u00a0published in\u00a0the journal\u00a0<span style=\"font-style: italic; color: #000000;\">Clinical Psychological Science\u00a0<\/span>on\u00a0<strong>August 13, 2014<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span><em><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Mary McKinnon, McMaster University,\u00a0Ontario<\/span><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A terrifying near-accident on an airplane has offered new insight on how a person\u2019s memory processes influence the risk of developing post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD.)\u00a0In 2001, Air Transat flight 236 nearly crashed into the Atlantic Ocean after running out of fuel; at the last minute the pilot was able to land safely on a small [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[1642,50,1508,2114],"class_list":["post-2760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-memory","tag-ontario","tag-psychology","tag-ptsd"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-Iw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2760"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2761,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2760\/revisions\/2761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}