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Open AccessAcoustic and prosodic speech features reflect physiological stress but not isolated negative affect: a multi-paradigm study on psychosocial stressors
Heterogeneity in speech under stress has been a recurring issue in stress research, potentially due to varied stress induction paradigms. This study investigated speech features in semi-guided speech following...
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Open AccessEcologically valid speech collection in behavioral research: The Ghent Semi-spontaneous Speech Paradigm (GSSP)
This paper introduces the Ghent Semi-spontaneous Speech Paradigm (GSSP), a new method for collecting unscripted speech data for affective-behavioral research in both experimental and real-world settings throug...
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Reduced Attention Towards Accomplishments Mediates the Effect of Self-Critical Rumination on Regret
Rumination is associated with counterfactual thinking (CFT) and regret, but underlying mechanisms in this association are uninvestigated. Rumination is characterized by attentional biases and focusing attentio...
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Open AccessEffects of acute psychosocial stress on source level EEG power and functional connectivity measures
The usage of EEG to uncover the influence of psychosocial stressors (PSSs) on neural activity has gained significant attention throughout recent years, but the results are often troubled by confounding stresso...
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Open AccessAcoustic speech features in social comparison: how stress impacts the way you sound
The use of speech as a digital biomarker to detect stress levels is increasingly gaining attention. Yet, heterogeneous effects of stress on specific acoustic speech features have been observed, possibly due to...
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The Role of the Posterior Cerebellum in Dysfunctional Social Sequencing
Recent advances in social neuroscience have highlighted the critical role of the cerebellum in social cognition, and especially the posterior cerebellum. Studies have supported the view that the posterior cere...
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Open AccessReduced subgenual cingulate–dorsolateral prefrontal connectivity as an electrophysiological marker for depression
Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) is a widespread mental illness that causes considerable suffering, and neuroimaging studies are trying to reduce this burden by develo** biomarkers that can facilitate detecti...
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Open AccessEight items of the ruminative response scale are sufficient to measure weekly within-person variation in rumination
The Ruminative Response Scale (RRS) is commonly used to measure people’s general tendency to ruminate. In this study, we explored whether only few items from the RRS can be used to capture within-person variat...
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Open AccessSpeech as an indicator for psychosocial stress: A network analytic approach
Recently, the possibilities of detecting psychosocial stress from speech have been discussed. Yet, there are mixed effects and a current lack of clarity in relations and directions for parameters derived from ...
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Open AccessA randomized controlled trial of cognitive control training (CCT) as an add-on treatment for late-life depression: a study protocol
Already a major health concern, late-life depression (LLD) is expected to form an increasing problem in the aging population. Moreover, despite current treatments, LLD is associated with a poor long-term progn...
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Emotional Memory: Concluding Remarks to the Special Issue on Memory Training for Emotional Disorders
Basic research on emotional memory has given rise to important innovations in research on memory training in the context of psychopathology. In the special issue om memory training research is presented on (1)...
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Cognitive Control Training in Healthy Older Adults: A Proof of Concept Study on the Effects on Cognitive Functioning, Emotion Regulation and Affect
The current study sets out to explore the influence of a well-studied cognitive control training (CCT) procedure on cognitive control processes, emotion regulation (ER) and self-reported affect in older adults.
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A Cognitive Control Training as Add-On Treatment to Usual Care for Depressed Inpatients
There is a growing body of research supporting the potential therapeutic value of the Cognitive Control Training (CCT) for depression, even though more research including a control condition is necessary to in...
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Open AccessPrefrontal tDCS attenuates counterfactual thinking in female individuals prone to self-critical rumination
The tendency to ruminate (i.e., repetitive negative self-referential thoughts that perpetuate depressive mood) is associated with (a) an elevated propensity to maladaptively experience counterfactual thinking ...
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Open AccessThe impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on wellbeing and cognitive functioning of older adults
COVID-19 took a heavy toll on older adults. In Belgium, by the end of August, 93% of deaths due to COVID-19 were aged 65 or older. Similar trends were observed in other countries. As a consequence, older adult...
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Combination of tDCS with Psychotherapy and Neurobehavioral Interventions: Systematic Review and Mechanistic Principles for Future Clinical Trials
The combination of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) with psychological interventions is a promising avenue for optimized tDCS treatment in psychiatric disorders. Given that the efficacy of tDCS d...
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Modulating Cognition in Healthy Young Adults with tDCS
This chapter provides an overview of the literature concerning the effects of tDCS on high-level cognitive functions in young healthy adults. This neuromodulation technique modulates several components of cogn...
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Open AccessCognitive remediation following electroconvulsive therapy in patients with treatment resistant depression: randomized controlled trial of an intervention for relapse prevention – study protocol
Major depressive episode (MDE) is worldwide one of the most prevalent and disabling mental health conditions. In cases of persistent non-response to treatment, electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is a safe and eff...
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Depressive Disorders
The main and best evidence-based indication to date to apply repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (rTMS) in psychiatric disorders is major depression. Nevertheless, given that the high occurrence of ma...
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Prefrontal TDCS attenuates medial prefrontal connectivity upon being criticized in individuals scoring high on perceived criticism
The mechanisms by which transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) influences emotional processing - and whether this is related to individual vulnerability for psychopathology - are still poorly understoo...