Priming panic interpretations in children of patients with panic disorder

Schneider, Silvia; Unnewehr, Suzan; Florin, Irmela; Margraf, Jürgen

doi:10.1016/s0887-6185(02)00126-3

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“…In this case, attention bias can be measured soon after the development of an anxiety disorder or a component of anxiety disorders but not before, whereas interpretation bias can be measured before the anxiety disorder or components of the disorder have been established. The pattern of results of this investigation as well as the results of the study of Schneider et al [44] support this assumption. We found interpretation bias and no attention bias in children at risk for developing panic disorder, who had never experienced a panic attack.…”

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“…One explanation could be that, like in the study of Schneider et al [44] , the children need to be primed. However, this hypothesis needs to be tested in another study.…”

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“…Interestingly, in another study we compared once again children of individuals with panic disorder, children of individuals with animal phobia, and children of normal controls with respect to their interpretations of ambiguous scenarios, which included three types of stimuli: panic-relevant, animal phobia-relevant, and panic-irrelevant stimuli [44] . The results of this investigation indicated that children of individuals with panic disorder reported interpretation bias with respect to panic-relevant symptoms, but this bias could only be observed after priming with a panic model.…”

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Attention Bias in Children of Patients with Panic Disorder

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Cognitive models of panic disorder have emphasized the role of cognitive distortions in the maintenance of this disorder. Several studies have produced results consistent with this hypothesis, but it is still unclear whether cognitive biases precede anxiety disorders or whether they are a consequence of the disorder. In the present study, we compared children of individuals with panic disorder, children of individuals with animal phobia, and children of normal controls with respect to attentional bias with an emotional Stroop task, which included three types of words: panic-relevant, animal phobia-relevant, and neutral words. Our results revealed that children of panic patients did not show an attentional bias for panic-relevant stimuli. Results will be discussed in the context of theoretical models explaining the etiological factor of cognitive biases for the development of anxiety disorders.

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“…One explanation could be that, like in the study of Schneider et al [44] , the children need to be primed. However, this hypothesis needs to be tested in another study.…”

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“…[31][32][33][34][35] According to the cognitive model of health anxiety, such experiences would be likely to contribute to health anxiety. More direct evidence derives from several studies that have evaluated the Whiteley Index (WI), [36] a measure of hypochondriacal tendencies or disease phobia, somatic symptoms, and disease conviction.…”

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Health anxiety and fear of fear in panic disorder and agoraphobia vs. social phobia: a prospective longitudinal study

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“…Moreover, studies conducted with risk groups can provide valuable information as well. To illustrate, Schneider et al (2002) found that children of parents who suffered from a panic disorder exhibited a panic-related interpretation bias, but only after they had been primed with panic-relevant but not with panic-irrelevant material. In addition, this interpretation bias was a predictor for the later onset of anxiety disorders in those children.…”

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Editorial for the Special Issue on Cognitive Bias Modification Techniques: An Introduction to a Time Traveller’s Tale

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2014

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At the time of writing (December, 2013), a search for cognitive bias modification (CBM) in SCOPUS yields 113 results. Tellingly, the earliest of the articles found by this rather crude search appear in 2009, clustering around the special issue on CBM in the Journal of Abnormal Psychology that year (Koster et al. 2009). While the term CBM had been used in the literature prior to this, and in fact research into CBM (albeit not always using this exact term) had been steadily gathering momentum since the first studies were published in 2000, there has clearly been an explosion in research on CBM in the years since. What has happened in this period? Over the past 4 years, CBM research has been on an exciting journey, with many twists and turns, ups and downs. This special issue seeks to provide an overview of this journey, and a glimpse of the road-or roads-ahead. But where to begin? The journey did not start in 2009, nor even a decade earlier when the dominant CBM paradigms were first described. To fully make sense of this journey, and all the twists in this travellers' tale, we must go back further still.Once upon a time … during the cognitive era of psychology … researchers embarked on the great adventure of exploring the 'cognitive landscape' of emotional pathology … an extremely challenging landscape…. After a few years, the first landmarks were established: cognitive biases in emotional disorders. But what did they signify? It seemed that such selective information-processing biases were crucial factors in the etiology, maintenance, and relapse of various types of emotional disorders. Hence, many cognitive theories built on this discovery in order to account for emotional pathology (e. Cognitive biases reflect a general processing advantage for disorder-relevant information. The findings of cognitive-experimental research indicate that emotional disorders are (roughly) characterized by three types of biases, i.e., biases in attention, interpretation, and memory. To illustrate, depressed or anxious individuals are, compared to healthy individuals, more likely to attend to negative cues, interpret ambiguity in a more negative manner, and selectively recall negative information (for a review, see Mathews and MacLeod 2005). According to the assumptions put forward by cognitive theories, the functional relationship between biases and emotional pathology can be described as follows: Biases are accompanied by various dysfunctional cognitions, which in turn activate dysfunctional emotional and behavioral responses. Due to the reinforcing connection between cognitions, emotions, and behavior, a 'psychopathological downward spiral' becomes activated in vulnerable individuals, possibly resulting in anxiety-or depression-related symptoms.In parallel to the development of measures to assess biases in attention, interpretation, and memory, researchers started to investigate whether it is also possible to modify biased cognitive processes. This work was motivated by the question of the causal nature of these biases: while the...

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Priming panic interpretations in children of patients with panic disorder

Cited by 58 publications

References 35 publications

Attention Bias in Children of Patients with Panic Disorder

Attention Bias in Children of Patients with Panic Disorder

Health anxiety and fear of fear in panic disorder and agoraphobia vs. social phobia: a prospective longitudinal study

Editorial for the Special Issue on Cognitive Bias Modification Techniques: An Introduction to a Time Traveller’s Tale

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