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Publication date: Available online 8 August 2019Source: Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental PsychiatryAuthor(s): (Source: Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry)
Source: Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry - August 9, 2019 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

Immediate and short term effects of values-based interventions on paranoia
ConclusionsThe findings suggest that focusing on a deeply held value and setting goals in line with that value reduced paranoia. This intervention may be most beneficial for individuals with low self-esteem. (Source: Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry)
Source: Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry - July 27, 2019 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

Attentional biases in dysphoria when happy and sad faces are simultaneously presented
ConclusionsThese results support the need for further research on the processing of competing emotional stimuli in depression. (Source: Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry)
Source: Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry - July 24, 2019 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

Targeting separate specific learning parameters underlying cognitive behavioral therapy can improve perceptual judgments of anger
ConclusionsThis study demonstrates that specific decision parameters underlying perceptual judgment can be experimentally manipulated. Although our study failed to show diagnosis specific effects, it suggests that individual parameter “estimation” deficits may be experimentally isolated and potentially targeted, with the ultimate goal of developing an objective approach to personalized intervention targeting biased perceptual judgments in anxiety disorders. (Source: Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry)
Source: Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry - July 12, 2019 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

Borderline personality disorder traits and affect reactivity to positive affect induction followed by a stressor
ConclusionsOur results do not support models postulating BPD-specific affective hyperreactivity. HAP and LAP have different trajectories, depending on the degree of psychopathology. The resilience-enhancing potential of a PA-focus in psychotherapy needs further research. (Source: Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry)
Source: Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry - July 3, 2019 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

Reduced automatic approach tendencies towards task-relevant and task-irrelevant food pictures in Anorexia Nervosa
ConclusionPatients with AN are characterized by weakened automatic approach of high caloric food. This might ‘help’ restrict their food-intake even in a condition of starvation. (Source: Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry)
Source: Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry - June 29, 2019 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

Interpreting and responding to ambiguous natural images in spider phobia
ConclusionsWe suggest that these findings can be explained by the nature of the applied tasks that tap into early phases of visual processing, thereby relying on feedforward-mediated low-spatial-frequency information extracted via the fast, subcortical path to the amygdala. (Source: Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry)
Source: Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry - June 22, 2019 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

On EMDR: Measuring the working memory taxation of various types of eye (Non-)Movement conditions
ConclusionsIn line with previous lab studies, making eye movements was more taxing than eyes fixed. We discuss why this effect was not observed for reductions in PTSD symptoms in the clinical trial (e.g., differences in dependent variables, sample population, and intervention duration). For more comprehensive future insights, we recommend integration of mechanistically focused lab analogue studies and patient-oriented clinical studies. (Source: Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry)
Source: Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry - June 11, 2019 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

Renewal of conditioned fear responses using a film clip as the aversive unconditioned stimulus
ConclusionsThe current set-up enables investigation of fear renewal using an audiovisual US. Future studies can utilize this paradigm to investigate interventions that aim to reduce fear renewal by modifying the US memory, such as Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing and imagery rescripting. (Source: Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry)
Source: Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry - June 4, 2019 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

Imagery rescripting of early memories in health anxiety disorder: A feasibility and non-randomized pilot study
ConclusionsThe results suggest that IR is a feasible technique in the treatment of health anxiety, and that more controlled research along these lines may be worthwhile. (Source: Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry)
Source: Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry - June 1, 2019 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

Intolerance of uncertainty and eating disorder behaviour: Piloting a consumption task in a non-clinical sample
Conclusions: IU may be implicated in a rigid cognitive style, the anxiety response to energy-dense food, and restrictive eating behaviour. Should these findings be replicated in a clinical sample, then IU might emerge as an adjunctive treatment target for AN. (Source: Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry)
Source: Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry - June 1, 2019 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

Niacin biological challenge: A paradigm to evaluate social concerns
ConclusionsThese findings highlight a distinct role of AS social concerns in fear responding to socially evaluative situations in the context of physically observable arousal. (Source: Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry)
Source: Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry - May 31, 2019 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

Foreword: Special Issue in honour of Professor Arnoud Arntz
Publication date: Available online 28 May 2019Source: Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental PsychiatryAuthor(s): Jill Lobbestael, Marcus Huibers (Source: Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry)
Source: Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry - May 28, 2019 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

Transdiagnostic cognitive behavioral therapy for the treatment of emotional disorders: A preliminary open trial
ConclusionsThe findings, although preliminary, provide additional evidence for the utilization of tCBT in the effective treatment of emotional disorders. Further research into the implementation of the tCBT for emotional disorders protocol through a randomized controlled trial involving groups of participants with a range of emotional disorder diagnoses is warranted. (Source: Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry)
Source: Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry - May 23, 2019 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

The effect of increasing state anxiety on autobiographical memory specificity and future thinking
ConclusionsAlthough preliminary, these findings provide first evidence of the causal impact of an anxiety induction on the ability to retrieve specific AM. (Source: Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry)
Source: Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry - May 21, 2019 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research