Attention fixation training: training people to form cognitive maps help to control symptoms of panic disorder with agoraphobia

Kállai, János; Kosztolányi, Péter; Osváth, Anikó; Jacobs, W. Jake

doi:10.1016/s0005-7916(99)00029-4

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“…selfefficacy and anxiety. Earlier studies found that different way-finding strategies correlated differently with spatial anxiety in healthy (Lawton,1994) and pathological groups (Kallai et al, 1999). The affective dimension warrants further study, particularly in older people and those with disorientation issues.…”

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Relationship between spatial ability, visuospatial working memory and self-assessed spatial orientation ability: a study in older adults

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This paper describes some novel spatial tasks and questionnaires designed to assess spatial and orientation abilities. The new tasks and questionnaires were administered to a sample of 90 older adults (41 males, age range 57–90), along with some other tests of spatial ability (Minnesota Paper Form Board, Mental Rotations Test, and Embedded Figures Test) and tests of visuospatial working memory (Corsi’s Block Test and Visual Pattern Test). The internal reliability of the new tasks and questionnaires was analyzed, as well as their relationship with the spatial and working memory tests. The results showed that the new spatial tasks are reliable, correlate with working memory and spatial ability tests and, compared with the latters, show stronger correlations with the self-report questionnaires referring to orientation abilities. A model was also tested (with reference to Allen et al. in Intelligence 22:327–355, 1996) in which the new tasks were assumed to relate to spatial ability and predict orientation abilities as assessed by the self-report measures

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Relationship between spatial ability, visuospatial working memory and self-assessed spatial orientation ability: a study in older adults

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“…Furthermore, the higher reported levels of neuroticism and negative affect in individuals with DTD www.nature.com/scientificreports/ is likely indicative of an increased level of stress reactivity, with the threat of getting lost a prominent stressor in these individuals' lives. It is possible that higher levels of neuroticism or negative affect are not core features of DTD, but are more likely to be associated with DTD causing impairments in performing day-to-day navigational activities (potentially via adoption of maladaptive coping strategies 20 , or even agoraphobia [21][22][23] ) and therefore increasing the likelihood of characterizing oneself as having difficulties orienting. In addition to this possibility, neuroticism has been shown to affect the functioning of a wide variety of brain regions, including some implicated in spatial processing e.g., the hippocampus, posterior cingulate, caudate nucleus, and fusiform gyrus [24][25][26] .…”

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Behavioural and cognitive mechanisms of Developmental Topographical Disorientation

Burles

Iaria

2020

Sci Rep

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Individuals affected by Developmental Topographical Disorientation (DTD) get lost on a daily basis, even in the most familiar of surroundings such as their neighbourhood, the building where they have worked for many years, and, in extreme cases, even in their own homes. Individuals with DTD report a lifelong selective inability to orient despite otherwise well-preserved general cognitive functions, and the absence of any acquired brain injury or neurological condition, with general intelligence reported to be within the normal range. To date, the mechanisms underlying such a selective developmental condition remain unknown. Here, we report the findings of a 10-year-long study investigating the behavioural and cognitive mechanisms of DTD in a large sample of 1211 cases. We describe the demographics, heritability pattern, self-reported and objective spatial abilities, and some personality traits of individuals with DTD as compared to a sample of 1624 healthy controls; importantly, we test the specific hypothesis that the presence of DTD is significantly related to the inability of the individuals to form a mental representation of the spatial surroundings (i.e., a cognitive map). We found that individuals with DTD reported relatively greater levels of neuroticism and negative affect, and rated themselves more poorly on self-report measures of memory and imagery skills related to objects, faces, and places. While performing interactive tasks, as a group, the individuals with DTD performed slightly worse on a scene-based perspective-taking task, and, notably struggled to solve tasks that demand the generation and use of a cognitive map. These novel findings help define the phenotype of DTD, and lay the foundation for future studies of the neurological and genetic mechanisms of this lifelong condition.

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“…Several clinical interventions for PD, specifically aiming to exert control of the locus of attention in order to facilitate anxiety reduction, have been described (Kallai et al, 1999;Mobini and Grant, 2007;Ottaviani and Beck, 1987;Wells et al, 1997). Such attentional interventions might benefit from the use of precise psychophysiological measures such as P3 amplitude and phasic SCRs to both predict and gauge treatment response.…”

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Event-related potential and autonomic signs of maladaptive information processing during an auditory oddball task in panic disorder

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McFarlane

Clark

et al. 2009

International Journal of Psychophysiology

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Attention fixation training: training people to form cognitive maps help to control symptoms of panic disorder with agoraphobia

Cited by 14 publications

References 17 publications

Relationship between spatial ability, visuospatial working memory and self-assessed spatial orientation ability: a study in older adults

Relationship between spatial ability, visuospatial working memory and self-assessed spatial orientation ability: a study in older adults

Behavioural and cognitive mechanisms of Developmental Topographical Disorientation

Event-related potential and autonomic signs of maladaptive information processing during an auditory oddball task in panic disorder

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