Journal of Traumatic Stress Disorders & TreatmentISSN: 2324-8947

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Martina Piefke Author

Martina.Piefke@uni-wh.de

Subjects of specialization
Psychophysics, Behavioural Genetics, Forensic Psychiatry, stress

Affiliation
Centre for Biomedical Education and Research, Witten/Herdecke University, Germany

Biography

Martina Piefke is a neuroscientist who has done important research on integrating psychological and neuroscientific approaches in studying complex phenomena such as empathy. He is the Head of the Chair of Neurobiology and Genetics of Behaviour. His current research interests include the Social cognition, cognitive and clinical neuroscience, emotion regulation, empathy, Theory of Mind, learning and memory, structural and functional neuroimaging, psychophysics, epigenetics, behavioural genetics, neuropsychological diagnosis and rehabilitation, stress, forensic psychiatry, malingering, autism, neurodegenerative diseases.

Publications

Research Article Open Access

Complex Real Life-Related Prospective Memory in Soldiers with and Without Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

Author(s):

Katharina Glienke, Gerd Dieter Willmund, Peter Zimmermann and Martina Piefke

Objective: Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is known to influence memory functions in a complex fashion. However, little is known about the impact of PTSD on future directed mnemonic functions like prospective memory (PM). 

Methods: The present study aimed at examining performance of 13 soldiers with PTSD, 12 without PTSD and 21 non-military controls without PTSD across different phases of a real life-related PM paradigm. In addition, neuropsychological tests of memory and the influence of salivary cortisol levels on memory performance were
assessed.
Results: Soldiers with PTSD performed significantly worse during the planning and retrieval phase of time- and event-dependent PM compared to the non-military controls,... view more»

DOI: 10.4172/2324-8947.1000176

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