The working mechanisms of imagery rescripting and eye movement desensitization and reprocessing: Findings from a randomised controlled trial
This study provides insight into the relative effectiveness and working mechanisms of these treatments.PMID:38359658 | DOI:10.1016/j.brat.2024.104492 (Source: Behaviour Research and Therapy)
Source: Behaviour Research and Therapy - February 15, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Sophie A Rameckers Arnold A P van Emmerik Katrina Boterhoven de Haan Margriet Kousemaker Eva Fassbinder Christopher W Lee Mariel Meewisse Simone Menninga Marleen Rijkeboer Anja Schaich Arnoud Arntz Source Type: research
The working mechanisms of imagery rescripting and eye movement desensitization and reprocessing: Findings from a randomised controlled trial
This study provides insight into the relative effectiveness and working mechanisms of these treatments.PMID:38359658 | DOI:10.1016/j.brat.2024.104492 (Source: Behaviour Research and Therapy)
Source: Behaviour Research and Therapy - February 15, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Sophie A Rameckers Arnold A P van Emmerik Katrina Boterhoven de Haan Margriet Kousemaker Eva Fassbinder Christopher W Lee Mariel Meewisse Simone Menninga Marleen Rijkeboer Anja Schaich Arnoud Arntz Source Type: research
Positive mood induction does not reduce return of fear: A virtual reality exposure study for public speaking anxiety
Behav Res Ther. 2024 Feb 1;174:104490. doi: 10.1016/j.brat.2024.104490. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTPrevious laboratory work has shown that induction of positive mood prior to fear extinction decreases the negative valence of the conditional stimulus (CS) and reduces reinstatement of fear. Before translating these insights to clinical practice, it is important to test this strategy in anxious individuals. Students with a high fear of public speaking (N = 62) were randomized to either a positive mood induction, a negative mood induction, or no induction control group. All participants performed two weekly sessions of virt...
Source: Behaviour Research and Therapy - February 14, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Suzanne C van Veen Tomislav D Zbozinek Eva A M van Dis Iris M Engelhard Michelle G Craske Source Type: research
Positive mood induction does not reduce return of fear: A virtual reality exposure study for public speaking anxiety
Behav Res Ther. 2024 Feb 1;174:104490. doi: 10.1016/j.brat.2024.104490. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTPrevious laboratory work has shown that induction of positive mood prior to fear extinction decreases the negative valence of the conditional stimulus (CS) and reduces reinstatement of fear. Before translating these insights to clinical practice, it is important to test this strategy in anxious individuals. Students with a high fear of public speaking (N = 62) were randomized to either a positive mood induction, a negative mood induction, or no induction control group. All participants performed two weekly sessions of virt...
Source: Behaviour Research and Therapy - February 14, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Suzanne C van Veen Tomislav D Zbozinek Eva A M van Dis Iris M Engelhard Michelle G Craske Source Type: research
Continuous theta burst stimulation to dorsomedial prefrontal cortex in young adults with depression: Changes in resting frontostriatal functional connectivity relevant to positive mood
Behav Res Ther. 2024 Feb 7;174:104493. doi: 10.1016/j.brat.2024.104493. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTDepression is associated with diminished positive affect (PA), postulated to reflect frontostriatal reward circuitry disruptions. Depression has consistently been associated with higher dorsomedial prefrontal cortex (dmPFC) activation, a region that regulates PA through ventral striatum (VS) connections. Low PA in depression may reflect dmPFC's aberrant functional connectivity (FC) with the VS. To test this, we applied theta burst stimulation (TBS) to dmPFC in 29 adults with depression (79% female, Mage = 21.4, SD = 2.04)....
Source: Behaviour Research and Therapy - February 13, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Tina Gupta Helmet T Karim Neil P Jones Fabio Ferrarelli Melissa Nance Stephan F Taylor David Rogers Ashley M Pogue T H Stanley Seah Mary L Phillips Neal D Ryan Erika E Forbes Source Type: research
Social Evaluation in Emerging Adults: Associations with Interpretation Bias and Perceived Social Support
In this study, emerging adults (N = 303) completed an online adaptation of the Chatroom task (Guyer et al. in Arch Gener Psychiatry 65(11):1303-1312, 2008. https://doi.org/10.1001/archpsyc.65.11.1303 ), an experimental paradigm designed to simulate social acceptance and rejection, as well as a performance-based measure of interpretation bias (Word Sentence Association Paradigm; Beard and Amir in Behav Res Ther 46(10):1135-1141, 2008. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brat.2008.05.012 ), and a self-report measure of perceived social support (Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support; Zimet et al. in J Pers Assess 52(1), 30...
Source: Behaviour Research and Therapy - February 8, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Emily L Jones Michelle Rozenman Source Type: research
Cognitive behavioral therapy versus compassion focused therapy for adult patients with eating disorders with and without childhood trauma: A randomized controlled trial in an intensive treatment setting
CONCLUSION: While both CBT and CFT-E resulted in significant reductions in eating pathology, CFT-E showed superior maintenance of benefits for patients with a history of childhood trauma at one-year follow-up, underlining the necessity of tailored interventions for specific patient subgroups.PMID:38310672 | DOI:10.1016/j.brat.2024.104480 (Source: Behaviour Research and Therapy)
Source: Behaviour Research and Therapy - February 4, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: KariAnne R Vrabel Glenn Waller Ken Goss Bruce Wampold Maren Kopland Asle Hoffart Source Type: research
Is disgust more resistant to extinction than fear? A meta-analytic review of laboratory paradigms
Behav Res Ther. 2024 Jan 17;174:104479. doi: 10.1016/j.brat.2024.104479. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTDisgust can be acquired via evaluative conditioning; a process by which a neutral stimulus (conditioned stimulus; CS) comes to be evaluated as disgusting due to its pairing with an inherently disgusting stimulus (unconditioned stimulus; US). Research has shown that conditioned disgust responses are resistant to extinction which may have implications for disorders (i.e., contamination-based obsessive-compulsive disorder, specific phobias, and post-traumatic stress disorder) in which heightened disgust has been implicated. ...
Source: Behaviour Research and Therapy - February 1, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Benjamin J Mitchell Karin G Coifman Bunmi O Olatunji Source Type: research
Extinction of negative conditioned stimulus valence in human fear conditioning
Behav Res Ther. 2024 Jan 9;174:104477. doi: 10.1016/j.brat.2024.104477. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTFear conditioning is a common experimental paradigm for modelling the development, and exposure-based treatment, of anxiety disorders. Measures of fear such as threat-expectancy, physiological arousal, and fear ratings typically extinguish, however feared stimuli may still be evaluated negatively (i.e. retain negative valence). This systematic review provides the first investigation of the relationship between fear conditioning methodology and extinction of negative stimulus valence. Principal findings were that type of CS...
Source: Behaviour Research and Therapy - January 28, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jamiah Hyde Lara J Farrell Allison M Waters Source Type: research
Online cognitive bias modification for interpretation to reduce anxious thinking during the COVID-19 pandemic
Behav Res Ther. 2024 Feb;173:104463. doi: 10.1016/j.brat.2023.104463. Epub 2023 Dec 25.ABSTRACTAnxiety disorders are highly prevalent, and rates increased during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, most individuals with elevated anxiety do not access treatment due to barriers such as stigma, cost, and availability. Digital mental health programs, such as cognitive bias modification for interpretation (CBM-I), hold promise in increasing access to care. Before widely disseminating CBM-I, we must rigorously test its effectiveness and determine whom it is best positioned to benefit. The present study (which is a substudy of a pare...
Source: Behaviour Research and Therapy - January 24, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Maria A Larrazabal Jeremy W Eberle Angel Vela de la Garza Evia Mehdi Boukhechba Daniel H Funk Laura E Barnes Steven M Boker Bethany A Teachman Source Type: research
Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy-Taking it Further (MBCT-TiF) compared to Ongoing Mindfulness Practice (OMP) in the promotion of well-being and mental health: A randomised controlled trial with graduates of MBCT and MBSR
CONCLUSIONS: The findings support MBCT-TiF, in the context of the proposed global mental health approach, to help MBCT/MBSR graduates sustain mental health benefits and experience further gains in mental well-being after completing an introductory MBCT/MBSR programme. Future work should consider mechanisms and longer follow-up measurements.PMID:38244384 | DOI:10.1016/j.brat.2024.104478 (Source: Behaviour Research and Therapy)
Source: Behaviour Research and Therapy - January 20, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Shannon Maloney Jesus Montero-Marin Willem Kuyken Source Type: research
Emotion differentiation among individuals in a randomized clinical trial for alcohol use disorder: Within- and between-person associations with affect, craving, and alcohol use in daily life
Behav Res Ther. 2024 Feb;173:104474. doi: 10.1016/j.brat.2024.104474. Epub 2024 Jan 2.ABSTRACTEmotion differentiation refers to cognitively distinguishing among discrete, same-valenced emotions. Negative emotion differentiation (NED) is a transdiagnostic indicator of emotional functioning. The role of positive emotion differentiation (PED) in clinical disorders, including alcohol use disorder (AUD), is less understood. Further, despite consensus that emotions are highly variable, little is known about within-person fluctuations in NED/PED. The current study leveraged 84 consecutive daily smartphone surveys from participant...
Source: Behaviour Research and Therapy - January 18, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Kyler S Knapp Clara M Bradizza Junru Zhao Braden K Linn Gregory E Wilding Charles LaBarre Paul R Stasiewicz Source Type: research
One research question, two meta-analyses, three conclusions: Commentary on "A systematic review with meta-analysis of Cognitive Bias Modification interventions for anger and aggression"
Discussion). How can similar meta-analyses reach such different conclusions? In this commentary, we raise awareness concerning how 1) seemingly identical research questions can be based on meaningfully different definitions of the intervention and outcomes; 2) intervention efficacy conclusions can depend on outcome assessment type; and 3) the interpretation of underpowered moderator analyses should not depend on statistical significance. We end our commentary with a third, more nuanced conclusion that can reconcile the two disparate conclusions: that current CBM-I is an effective experimental manipulation to modify interpr...
Source: Behaviour Research and Therapy - January 17, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Anouk van Dijk Nouran AlMoghrabi Patty Leijten Source Type: research
Performance-based attentional control, but not self-reported attentional control, predicts changes in depressive symptoms in short-term psychotherapy
CONCLUSIONS: Results suggest that performance-based attentional control may be an important target for assessment and intervention, as well as a potential mechanism underlying risk and recovery.PMID:38199180 | DOI:10.1016/j.brat.2024.104476 (Source: Behaviour Research and Therapy)
Source: Behaviour Research and Therapy - January 10, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Chloe C Hudson Jenna Traynor Thr östur Björgvinsson Courtney Beard Marie Forgeard Kean J Hsu Source Type: research
Treating emotion dysregulation in patients with borderline personality disorder using imagery rescripting: A two-session randomized controlled trial
Behav Res Ther. 2024 Feb;173:104454. doi: 10.1016/j.brat.2023.104454. Epub 2023 Dec 12.ABSTRACTStudies on Emotionally Dysregulated Behavior (EDB) demonstrated that the conduct thereof is associated with emotion dysregulation and preceded by mental imagery of EDB, which can direct future behavior. These findings are specifically important within the context of Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD), where emotion dysregulation and EDB are at the core of the disorder. The present study aims to evaluate the efficacy of imagery rescripting (IR) in treating emotion dysregulation associated with EDB in patients diagnosed with BPD...
Source: Behaviour Research and Therapy - January 9, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Zrinka Sosic-Vasic Caroline Schaitz Benjamin Mayer Anna Maier Bernhard Connemann Julia Kroener Source Type: research
