Nicole Short and doctoral students Lauren Reyes and Mattea Pezza (all Psychology) have published a manuscript in Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science, which is the American Psychological Associations' flagship journal for basic science in psychopathology. The manuscript, "The role of posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms in pain severity, interference, and variability after sexual assault: An ecological momentary assessment study," focused on 64 women presenting for emergency care after sexual assault. 

They found that posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms drive spikes in pain severity and pain variability in the acute aftermath of sexual assault, while pain severity and interference seem to affect later PTSD symptoms. Results add to mutual maintenance theories of PTSD and pain and are the first to our knowledge to intensively assess PTSD symptoms and pain associations in the aftermath of sexual assault.