ArticleClinical psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science2015
Attentional Control and Suppressing Negative Thought Intrusions in Pathological Worry.
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- Attenuated interoceptive processing in individuals with major depressive disorder and high repetitive negative thinking.Journal of psychiatric research · 2022Article
- Attentional Control Moderates the Relations between Intolerance of Uncertainty and Generalized Anxiety Disorder and Symptoms.Cognitive therapy and research · 2021Article
- Changes to information in working memory depend on distinct removal operations.Nature communications · 2020Article
- State anxiety reduces working memory capacity but does not impact filtering cost for neutral distracters.Psychophysiology · 2020Article
- Testing the differential effects of acceptance and attention-based psychological interventions on intrusive thoughts and worry.Behaviour research and therapy · 2017Article
- The Psychometric Properties of Attentional Control Scale and Its Relationship with Symptoms of Anxiety and Depression: A Study on Iranian Population.Iranian journal of psychiatry · 2017Article
- Unlocking Neurocognitive Substrates of Late-Life Affective Symptoms Using the Research Domain Criteria: Worry Is an Essential Dimension.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2017Article
- Reducing future fears by suppressing the brain mechanisms underlying episodic simulation.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2016Article
- Association between Attention and Heart Rate Fluctuations in Pathological Worriers.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2016Article
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Abstract
Adaptive behavior relies on the ability to effectively and efficiently ignore irrelevant information, an important component of attentional control. The current research found that fundamental difficulties in ignoring irrelevant material are related to dispositional differences in trait propensity to worry, suggesting a core deficit in attentional control in high worriers. The degree of deficit in attentional control correlated with the degree of difficulty in suppressing negative thought intrusions in a worry assessment task. A cognitive training procedure utilizing a flanker task was used in an attempt to improve attentional control. Although the cognitive training was largely ineffective, improvements in attentional control were associated with improvements in the ability to suppress worry-related thought intrusions. Across two studies, the findings indicate that the inability to control worry-related negative thought intrusions is associated with a general deficiency in attentional control.
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