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    Testing the Two-Factor Model of Musical Obsessions: Can They Be Predicted by the Interaction Between Frequency and Dysfunctional Interpretations of Common Earworms?

    Musical obsessions can be conceptualized as a severe form of intrusive musical imagery (IMI). The two-factor model of musical obsessions proposes that musical obsessions result from the interaction of the freq...

    Karina Wahl, Andrea H. Meyer in International Journal of Cognitive Therapy (2022)

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    Experience of learning from everyday work in daily safety huddles—a multi-method study

    To reduce patient harm, healthcare has focused on improvement based on learning from errors and adverse events (Safety-I). Daily huddles with staff are used to support incident reporting and learning in health...

    Karina Wahl, Margaretha Stenmarker, Axel Ros in BMC Health Services Research (2022)

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    Is a Ruminative Thinking Style Related to Obsessive-Compulsive Symptom Severity Beyond Its Associations with Depressive and Anxiety Symptom Severity?

    Previous studies suggest that a ruminative thinking style (RTS) is positively associated with the severity of obsessive-compulsive symptoms and might be involved in the maintenance of obsessive-compulsive diso...

    Carlotta V. Heinzel, Martin Kollárik in International Journal of Cognitive Therapy (2021)

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    Cognitive Motivations for the Initiation of Ritualistic Hand Washing in Obsessive–Compulsive Disorder

    There is little research on cognitive factors that characterize the initiation of compulsive washing in obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD). The present study seeks to contribute to a better understanding of t...

    Karina Wahl, Paul Salkovskis, Florence Allegro in Cognitive Therapy and Research (2020)

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    Prior Beliefs About the Importance and Control of Thoughts are Predictive But Not Specific to Subsequent Intrusive Unwanted Thoughts and Neutralizing Behaviors

    Dysfunctional beliefs are the central element in cognitive-behavioral conceptualizations of obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD). The purpose of this study was to further elucidate the etiological role of preex...

    Karina Wahl, Patrizia D. Hofer, Andrea H. Meyer in Cognitive Therapy and Research (2020)

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    Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) in patients with obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD) and residual symptoms after cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT): a randomized controlled trial

    Up to one-third of individuals with obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD) do not benefit from evidence-based psychotherapy. We examined the efficacy of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) as a complementa...

    Anne Katrin Külz, Sarah Landmann in European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinic… (2019)

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    Managing Obsessive Thoughts During Brief Exposure: An Experimental Study Comparing Mindfulness-Based Strategies and Distraction in Obsessive–Compulsive Disorder

    In mindful meditation, negative thoughts such as obsessive thoughts are observed simply as mental events that come and go, rather than as accurate reflections of reality. This experimental study tested the eff...

    Karina Wahl, Jan O. Huelle, Bartosz Zurowski in Cognitive Therapy and Research (2013)

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    Relevance of orbitofrontal neurochemistry for the outcome of cognitive-behavioural therapy in patients with obsessive–compulsive disorder

    Since the advent of non-invasive methods such as proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy (1H-MRS), obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD) has been increasingly associated with an altered composition of neurometabolit...

    Bartosz Zurowski, Andreas Kordon in European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinic… (2012)

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    Mental rotation, memory scanning, and the central bottleneck

    Two reaction-time experiments using the psychological refractory period paradigm examined whether two prominent tasks, i.e., mental rotation and memory scanning, require access to a single-channel mechanism a...

    Martin Heil, Karina Wahl, Michael Herbst in Psychological Research (1999)