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A School-Based Comparison of Positive Search Training to Enhance Adaptive Attention Regulation with a Cognitive-Behavioural Intervention for Reducing Anxiety Symptoms in Children
Many children experience anxiety but have limited access to empirically-supported interventions. School-based interventions using brief, computer-assisted training provide a viable way of reaching children. Re...
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Attentional bias to threat in children at-risk for emotional disorders: role of gender and type of maternal emotional disorder
Previous studies suggested that threat biases underlie familial risk for emotional disorders in children. However, major questions remain concerning the moderating role of the offspring gender and the type of ...
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Attention Control and Attention to Emotional Stimuli in Anxious Children Before and After Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
This study investigated attention control and attentional bias for emotional stimuli in children with anxiety disorders, compared with disorder-free children. Furthermore, it examined the effect of individual ...
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Electrophysiological evidence for greater attention to threat when cognitive control resources are depleted
In this study, we investigated the time course of attentional bias for threat-related (angry) facial expressions under conditions of high versus low cognitive (working memory) load. Event-related potential (ER...
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Effects of mu opioid receptor antagonism on cognition in obese binge-eating individuals
Translational research implicates the mu opioid neurochemical system in hedonic processing, but its role in dissociable high-level cognitive functions is not well understood. Binge-eating represents a useful m...
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Relationships between insomnia, negative emotionality and attention control
Cognitive models propose that insomnia is maintained by negative cognitive activity (such as worry and rumination) and somatic anxious arousal. Attention control (ability to focus attention, control thought) m...
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Attention Bias to Emotional Faces in Young Children Exposed to Intimate Partner Violence
Children exposed to intimate partner violence are at increased risk for posttraumatic stress disorder. The goal of the study was to test whether attention bias to threat was associated with a diagnosis of post...
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Effects of yohimbine and hydrocortisone on panic symptoms, autonomic responses, and attention to threat in healthy adults
Research in rodents and non-human primates implicates the noradrenergic system and hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal axis in stress, anxiety, and attention to threat. Few studies examine how these two neurochemic...
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Coarse threat images reveal theta oscillations in the amygdala: A magnetoencephalography study
Neurocognitive models propose a specialized neural system for processing threat-related information, in which the amygdala plays a key role in the analysis of threat cues. fMRI research indicates that the amyg...
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Attentional and approach biases for smoking cues in smokers: an investigation of competing theoretical views of addiction
Different theories of addiction make conflicting predictions about whether attentional and approach biases for smoking-related cues are enhanced, or reduced, as a function of the level of nicotine dependence.
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Alcohol increases cognitive biases for smoking cues in smokers
Alcohol increases the motivation to smoke, possibly because it increases the incentive motivational properties of smoking cues.
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Attentional Bias in Generalized Anxiety Disorder Versus Depressive Disorder
This review evaluates evidence of attentional biases in generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) and depressive disorder from studies using modified Stroop and visual probe tasks. There appears to be fairly consiste...
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Effect of short-term SSRI treatment on cognitive bias in generalised anxiety disorder
There is considerable evidence showing that individuals with generalised anxiety disorder (GAD) selectively process threat-related information, e.g. they have a bias to interpret ambiguous information in a thr...
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Attentional biases for alcohol cues in heavy and light social drinkers: the roles of initial orienting and maintained attention
There has been considerable theoretical interest in attentional biases for drug-related cues. However, there is little research on the component processes of such attentional biases.
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Eye movements to smoking-related cues: effects of nicotine deprivation
According to recent theories of addiction, nicotine deprivation may influence biases in the orienting and maintenance of attention on smoking-related cues.
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Masked Semantic Priming of Emotional Information in Subclinical Depression
Most cognitive theories of depression (e.g., Beck, 1976; Ingram, 1984; Teasdale, 1988; Bower, 1981) assume that depressed individuals have an automatic processing bias for negative information (e.g., activatio...
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Tachistoscopic applications of Micro Experimental Laboratory (MEL) used with IBM PC compatibles: Stimulus and response timing issues
IBM PCs and compatibles are increasingly used in psychological research for tachistoscopic tasks, which require precise control of timing of stimulus durations and accurate measurement of response latencies. T...
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Interpretation of homophones related to threat: Anxiety or response bias effects?
Three studies investigated the relationship between anxiety, social desirability, and an interpretative bias favoring, threat in nonclinical subjects. Interpretative bias was assessed with Mathews, Richards, a...
