Generalized anxiety disorder publications: Where do we stand a decade later?

Dugas, Michel J.; Anderson, Kristin G.; Deschênes, Sonya S.; Donegan, Eleanor

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“…In comparison, the pathophysiology of GAD (generalized anxiety disorder) is relatively understudied (Dugas, 2000;Mennin, Heimberg, Turk, & Fresco, 2002). GAD is specifically characterized by attentional biases to threatening stimuli (Bradley, Mogg, Falla, & Hamilton, 1998;Broadbent & Broadbent, 1988;MacNamara & Hajcak, 2010;Mogg et al, 2000), and increased early attentional vigilance in GAD is likely to result in a greater likelihood of detecting threat (Weinberg & Hajcak, 2011).…”

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Gradients of Fear Potentiated Startle During Generalization, Extinction, and Extinction Recall—and Their Relations With Worry

Dunning

Hajcak

2015

Behavior Therapy

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S S S t t t o o o n n n y y y B B B r r r o o o o o o k k k U U U n n n i i i v v v e e e r r r s s s i i i t t t y y yThe official electronic file of this thesis or dissertation is maintained by the University Libraries on behalf of The Graduate School at Stony Brook University. May 2012ii Stony Brook UniversityThe Graduate School Jonathan Paul DunningWe, the dissertation committee for the above candidate for the Doctor of Philosophy degree, hereby recommend acceptance of this dissertation. 2012It is well established that fear conditioning plays a role in the development and maintenance of anxiety disorders. Moreover, abnormalities in fear generalization, extinction learning, and extinction recall have also been associated with anxiety. However, no study to date has examined extinction learning or extinction recall using a generalization task. Hence, in the present study, participants were shocked following a CS+ and were also presented with stimuli that ranged in perceptual similarity to the CS+ (i.e., 20, 40, or 60% smaller or larger than the CS+) during a fear generalization phase. Participants were also presented with the same stimuli during an extinction learning phase and an extinction recall phase one week later; no shocks were presented during extinction learning or recall. Lastly, participants completed self-report measures of anxiety and worry. Results indicated that fear potentiated startle (FPS) to the CS+ and CS±20% shapes was present in generalization and extinction learning, suggesting that fear generalization persisted into extinction. FPS to the CS+ was also evident one week later during iv extinction recall. Hence, fear may be more resistant to extinction in generalization paradigms, where there is ambiguity regarding the CS+. In addition, higher levels of worry were associated with greater FPS to the CS+ during generalization and extinction learning phases. Moreover, individuals high in worry had fear response gradients that were steeper during both generalization and extinction learning. This suggests that high levels of worry (characteristic of generalized anxiety disorder) are associated with greater discriminative fear conditioning to threatening compared to safe stimuli but less fear generalization to perceptually similar stimuli. Dedication PageThis work is dedicated to my wife Crystal. For countless years, she has given me abundant and unwavering support, not only in my academic and career endeavors, but also in life. Her love and encouragement has revealed to me the many wonders of life, and I look forward to an amazing future with her and our family.

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Gradients of Fear Potentiated Startle During Generalization, Extinction, and Extinction Recall—and Their Relations With Worry

Dunning

Hajcak

2015

Behavior Therapy

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“…Yet scarce research has focused on the emotional and psychopathological mechanisms involved in GAD [5].…”

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Emotional Intelligence and Clinical Symptoms in Outpatients with Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD)

Lizeretti

Extremera

2011

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Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) is the anxiety disorder with the highest prevalence rate in mental health centers. Empirical researches concerning its diagnosis and treatment have not yet explored the potential implications of deficits in emotional intelligence (EI) as a vulnerability factor in its development. The present study aimed to investigate the relationship between EI and clinical symptoms in a group of psychiatric patients with GAD compared to the control group. Seventy outpatients (82.9% female) with a DSM-IV-TR diagnosis of GAD and 70 control individuals (72.9% female) completed self-report instruments assessing EI and clinical symptoms in a cross-sectional study. Significant correlations were observed between EI dimensions such as clarity (r = .327) and repair (r = .405) and symptoms of anxiety. Also, the dimensions of attention and repair allowed a clear discrimination between clinical patients and control group. The results of the present study showed that deficits in EI abilities were a vulnerability factor in the development of GAD.

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“…Recentemente, um grupo de pesquisadores investigou a frequência anual de publicação dos transtornos de ansiedade em um período de 10 anos (Dugas, Anderson, Deschenes, & Donegan, 2010 O termo medicalização da vida vem sendo utilizado para compreender o modo como determinados modos de vida vêm sendo gradativamente analisados em termos médicos, onde certas condutas e formas singulares de existir sofrem a passível análise de normalidade a partir de uma ótica moral ou estritamente biológica, gerando "conflitos acerca do estatuto médico, social, epistêmico ou ontológico de determinadas doenças e, portanto, da necessidade de controle e terapêutica das mesmas" (Gaudenzi & Ortega, 2011, p. 22).…”

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As Vítimas Da Violência: Entre Discursos Científicos E Biopolíticas Do Contemporâneo

Norte

2015

Psicol. Soc.

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RESUMOEste artigo apresenta reflexões em torno do papel social da vítima da violência na produção do medo e da insegurança, e sua influência no aumento dos mecanismos repressivos do estado penal brasileiro. Foi realizada uma pesquisa bibliográfica não sistemática buscando proposições acerca da criação de uma psicopatologia relacionada à vitimização, nesse caso o Transtorno de Estresse Pós-Traumático (TEPT). Indo além de uma proposta de caracterização do transtorno em si, o presente trabalho teve como objetivo entender as práticas que o engendram, quais contingências históricas o fizeram emergir em um determinado momento e quais efeitos têm produzido na medicalização da vida e nas atuais políticas públicas de segurança de nossa sociedade. Palavras-chave:Transtorno de Estresse Pós-Traumático; medicalização; violência; criminalização; políticas públicas. RESUMENEste artículo presenta una reflexión sobre el papel social de las víctimas de la violencia en la génesis del miedo y la sensación de inseguridad, así como su influencia en el aumento de los mecanismos represivos del Estado penal brasileño. Se realizó una búsqueda no sistemática en la literatura sobre las propuestas de la creación de una psicopatología relacionada con la victimización, en este caso el Trastorno de Estrés Postraumático (TEPT). Más allá de una propuesta de caracterización del trastorno en sí, el objetivo de este estudio fue comprender las prácticas que lo causan, así como las contingencias históricas que lo hicieron surgir en un momento determinado y los efectos que han producido en la medicalización de la población y en las políticas públicas de seguridad de nuestra sociedad.Palabras clave: Trastorno de Estrés Postraumático; medicalización; violencia; criminalización; políticas públicas. ABSTRACTThis article presents some reflections about the social role of violence victims in the production of fear and insecurity and its influences in the repressive mechanisms in state criminal justice. We performed a systematic literature search seeking proposals about the creation of a psychopathology related to victimhood, the Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). More than a simple characterization of the disorder, our aim was to investigate the practices that engender it, which public historical contingencies emerged at a given time and what effects are produced in the medicalization of life and current public security policies.

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Generalized anxiety disorder publications: Where do we stand a decade later?

Cited by 51 publications

References 23 publications

Gradients of Fear Potentiated Startle During Generalization, Extinction, and Extinction Recall—and Their Relations With Worry

Gradients of Fear Potentiated Startle During Generalization, Extinction, and Extinction Recall—and Their Relations With Worry

Emotional Intelligence and Clinical Symptoms in Outpatients with Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD)

As Vítimas Da Violência: Entre Discursos Científicos E Biopolíticas Do Contemporâneo

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