A follow-up study of cognitive bias in generalized anxiety disorder

Mogg, Karin; Bradley, Brendan P.; Millar, Neil; White, Jim

doi:10.1016/0005-7967(95)00031-r

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“…Positive Affect items were derived from items on The Profile of Mood States (Shacham, 1983) and the stimulant subscales of the Addiction Research Center Inventory (Haertzen, 1965). Negative Affect items were derived from previous research with anxious and depressed nonproblem gamblers and drinkers (Bradley and Mathews, 1983;Mogg et al, 1995). Neutral items were the names of parts of a building drawn from a compendium of word frequency norms (Battig and Montague, 1969).…”

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Amphetamine Primes Motivation to Gamble and Gambling-Related Semantic Networks in Problem Gamblers

Zack

Poulos

2003

Neuropsychopharmacol

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Amphetamine Primes Motivation to Gamble and Gambling-Related Semantic Networks in Problem Gamblers

Zack

Poulos

2003

Neuropsychopharmacol

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“…Increased vigilance and perturbed attention are prominent features of pediatric and adult anxiety disorders (16)(17)(18)(19)(20)(21)(22)(23). Thus, brain-based differences between anxious patients and controls may reflect anxiety-related differences in attentional processes.…”

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Ventrolateral Prefrontal Cortex Activation and Attentional Bias in Response to Angry Faces in Adolescents With Generalized Anxiety Disorder

Monk¹

2006

Am J Psychiatry

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Objective: While adolescent anxiety disorders represent prevalent, debilitating conditions, few studies explore their brain physiology. Using event-related functional MRI (fMRI) and a behavioral measure of attention to angry faces, we evaluated differences in response between healthy adolescents and adolescents with generalized anxiety disorder (GAD). Method:In the primary trials of interest, 18 adolescents with GAD and 15 comparisons of equivalent age/gender/IQ viewed angry/neutral face pairs during fMRI acquisition.Following the presentation of each face pair, subjects pressed a button to a probe that was either on the same (congruent) or opposite (incongruent) side as the angry face. Reaction time differences between congruent and incongruent face-trials provided a measure of attention bias to angry faces. Results:Relative to controls, patients with GAD manifested greater right ventrolateral prefrontal cortex (VLPFC) activation to trials containing angry faces. Compared with controls, patients with GAD also showed greater attentional bias away from angry faces. VLPFC activation differences were independent of differences in attentional bias. Conclusions:Adolescents with GAD show greater right VLPFC activation and attentional bias away from angry faces than controls. Enhanced VLPFC engagement may directly relate to anxiety, or may regulate abnormal functioning in another region.

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“…Its reemergence predicts the return of anxiety at follow-up among patients treated for generalized anxiety (Mogg, Bradley, Millar, & White, 1995) and social phobia (Lundh & Öst, 2001). Moreover, it causally Attention training 4 influences anxiety proneness (MacLeod, Rutherford, Campbell, Ebsworthy, & Holker (2002).…”

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Attention training toward and away from threat in social phobia: Effects on subjective, behavioral, and physiological measures of anxiety

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Behaviour Research and Therapy

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Social Phobics exhibit an attentional bias for threat in probe detection and probe discrimination paradigms. Attention training programs, whereby probes always replace nonthreat cues, reduce attentional bias for threat and self-reported anxiety. However, it remains unclear whether the therapeutic benefits of attention training result from people learning to disengage attention from threat cues or acquiring greater control over their attention by learning to deploy it flexibly. Moreover, researchers have seldom taken behavioral measures, and have never taken physiological measures of fear reduction.Investigating these questions, we found that training to disengage attention from threat is more effective than training to deploy it flexibly in social phobia. Indeed, the former condition reduced self-report, behavioral and physiological measures of anxiety.

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A follow-up study of cognitive bias in generalized anxiety disorder

Cited by 167 publications

References 15 publications

Amphetamine Primes Motivation to Gamble and Gambling-Related Semantic Networks in Problem Gamblers

Amphetamine Primes Motivation to Gamble and Gambling-Related Semantic Networks in Problem Gamblers

Ventrolateral Prefrontal Cortex Activation and Attentional Bias in Response to Angry Faces in Adolescents With Generalized Anxiety Disorder

Attention training toward and away from threat in social phobia: Effects on subjective, behavioral, and physiological measures of anxiety

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