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• eployed in variousfighting unit
• viewed backward masked photographs of either mili-tary medical or civilian content
• he prospective design of our study allowed for anal-yses in which behavioral and neural manifestations from BeforeStress and After Stress of each participant were compared directly
• Afterdemonstrating an increase in stress symptoms according to the PDSquestionnaire and enhanced limbic activation in response to thestress-related content at the group level, we sought a direct relationbetween individual behavioral and brain response. First, we calcu-lated the changes in stress symptoms over time for each participant:(After Stress...
• This lack of content selectivity couldbe expected from a predisposing neural feature existing before thefirst encounter with the stressful context.

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