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• Rule-based generalization determines an individual's threat belief. • Various threat beliefs led to different degrees of fear to novel generalization stimuli (GS). • Strong generalized fear to a GS in extinction evokes strong inhibitory learning and thus robust generalization of extinction. • Weak generalized fear to the same GS in extinction lea...
Published in Behaviour research and therapy
Published in Behaviour research and therapy
The PRIDE programme aims to establish a suite of transdiagnostic psychological interventions organised around a stepped care system in Indian secondary schools. This paper describes the development of a low-intensity, first-line component of the PRIDE model. Contextual and global evidence informed an intervention 'blueprint' with problem solving as...
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• Fear conditioning studies require quantification of fear learning and memory. • Statistical power can be increased by increasing measurement precision. • Measurement precision can be approximated by retrodictive validity. • Psychophysiological modelling relies on explicit measurement models and offers high retrodictive validity. • Required sample...
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• Examined diversity of experienced positive and negative emotion in trauma survivors. • Emotional diversity was measured for self-concept and the autobiographical past. • Trauma was related to increased diversity for negative emotion, relative to controls. • Trauma survivors also showed reduced diversity for positive emotion.
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Understanding which groups of patients are more or less likely to benefit from specific treatments has important implications for healthcare. Many personalised medicine approaches in mental health employ variable-centred approaches to predicting treatment response, yet person-centred approaches that identify clinical profiles of patients can provid...
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Fear conditioning models key processes related to the development, maintenance and treatment of anxiety disorders and is associated with group differences in anxiety. However, laboratory administration of tasks is time and cost intensive, precluding assessment in large samplesnecessary for the analysis of individual differences. This study introduc...
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Anxiety and depression are common, debilitating and costly. These disorders are influenced by multiple risk factors, from genes to psychological vulnerabilities and environmental stressors, but research is hampered by a lack of sufficiently large comprehensive studies. We are recruiting 40,000 individuals with lifetime depression or anxiety and bro...
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The majority of those who experience clinical anxiety and/or depressive symptoms in the population do not receive treatment. Studies investigating inequalities in treatment outcomes rarely consider that individuals respond differently to their experience of the environment. Much of our environment is under genetic influence, via our behaviour, wher...
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Facilitating engagement in rewarding activities is a key treatment target in depression. Mental imagery can increase engagement in planned behaviours, potentially due to its special role in representing emotionally salient experiences. The present study tested the hypothesis that mental imagery promotes motivation and engagement when planning pleas...
