Iranian Journal of War and Public Health

Background: Emotion and cognition are two basic dimensions of psychological organization, Failure of performance any part can affect to other sectors. Emotional experiences can be on PTSD.  the aim of this study is to investigate the performance of item and source memory in emotional experiences with PTSD.

Materials and Methods: This study was studied 30 veterans with PTSD and 30 normal individuals. The first three clips emotional (positive, negative or neutral) shown to participates, Then they were request to complete three questionnaires about the item and source memory.

Results: ANOVA test shows effect of group is Significant but emotional effect is only significant for source memory. Comparative results are also significant differences between the two samples in negative, positive and neutral emotional states in items and source memory. Just there is no significant difference between negative emotions in items memory.

Conclusion: PTSD patients had severe emotional experience that is beyond their tolerances it causes to they are reminded inconsistent and undesired components of the event. it makes difficult to process information completely so the PTSD patients had poorer performance in memory task.