Browsing by Subject "anxiety"
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An ensemble recruited by α2a-adrenergic receptors is engaged in a stressor-specific manner in mice (2022-11-14)Department: Pharmacologyα2a-adrenergic receptor (α2a-AR) agonists are candidate substance use disorder therapeutics due to their ability to recruit noradrenergic autoreceptors to dampen stress system engagement. However, we recently found that ...
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(Cancer Control, 2019-07-19)Anxiety, a condition which is commonly found in patients with cancer, has negative impacts on their quality of life and treatment outcome. This study aimed to determine the level of anxiety in patients with cancer and ...
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(2008-06-06)Department: PsychologyChronic abdominal pain (CAP) is common in youth and has been associated with poor social and emotional adjustment. Theory and research suggest that the nature of children’s adaptation to chronic or recurrent pain is ...
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(2018-08-31)Department: Molecular Physiology and BiophysicsStress is a precipitating agent in neuropsychiatric disease and initiates relapse to drug-seeking behavior in addicted patients. Targeting the stress system in protracted abstinence from drugs of abuse with anxiolytics may ...
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(2009-06-16)Department: EnglishIn this dissertation I examine the relationships between textual adaptation and social anxieties. By looking at work by artists as varied as Jane Austen and Michael Powell, Patricia Highsmith and Ellen Wood, Anthony ...
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(2012-08-12)Department: PsychologyThe current study investigated the role of chronic stress in alterations in automatic attentional and stress reactivity processes that may affect vulnerability to mental and physical illness in women. Participants were ...
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(2021-05-03)Department: PsychologyAlthough exposure therapy is an efficacious treatment for anxiety disorders, a common shortfall is that fear often returns after treatment. From an inhibitory learning perspective, long-term improvement depends not only ...
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(2016-08-01)Department: NeuroscienceCannabinoid receptors have been examined as potential targets to alleviate the negative consequences of anxiety, trauma-related, and stress-related disorders. However, in preclinical animal studies, synthetic cannabinoids ...
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(2023-03-29)Department: NeuroscienceThe endocannabinoid (eCB) system, which consists of the cannabinoid receptor type 1 (CB1R) and its endogenous ligand, 2-arachidonoylglycerol (2-AG), as well as key synthesis and degradation enzymes, can promote bidirectional, ...
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(2023-06-14)Department: Community Research & ActionThe Family Stress Model posits that environmental stressors place a burden on families that indirectly impact family dynamics and parenting, thereby undermining children’s adjustment. Past studies have acknowledged the ...
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(2023-06-14)Department: Community Research & ActionThe Family Stress Model posits that environmental stressors place a burden on families that indirectly impact family dynamics and parenting, thereby undermining children’s adjustment. Past studies have acknowledged the ...
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(2015-07-27)Department: Nursing ScienceHealth related stigma (HRS) is a poorly understood phenomenon in patients with advanced lung cancer. Approximately 30% of patients with lung cancer, regardless of smoking status, report feeling stigmatized due to their ...
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(2016-06-29)Department: EpidemiologyThis dissertation explored the effects of depression and anxiety on antiretroviral therapy (ART) initiation and adherence among newly diagnosed HIV-infected Chinese men who have sex with men (MSM). First, I conducted a ...
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(2016-04-08)Department: PsychologyAnxiety and stress can have debilitating effects on our physical and mental health. The purpose of the current study was to examine a way to buffer, or protect, people with anxious symptoms from the negative affect produced ...
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(2016-09-16)Department: PsychologyThe present line of research sought to examine mechanisms by which disgust may confer risk for anxiety within a developmental framework. The first aim was to develop and validate the Child Disgust Scale (CDS), a measure ...
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(2006-01-20)Department: Molecular Physiology and BiophysicsThe importance of integration of information from neurocircuits innervating the reward circuitry is becoming increasingly recognized. For instance, the roles of stress/anxiety pathways in modulating specific effects of ...
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(2010-01-04)Department: PsychologyThe objective of the study was to 1) understand the inter-relationships among variables of mother-child communication, maternal distress and illness-related stressors and 2) to isolate maternal distress and coping behaviors ...
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(2014-07-22)Department: PsychologyClassical learning theories of anxiety have been criticized for their failure to capture the full complexity of anxiety disorders. To address this limitation, contemporary learning theories have emerged, which acknowledge ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2009-04-03)Questionnaire and observational measures were used to examine psychological anxiety in mothers of children coping with pediatric cancer and its association with child anxiety and mother-child communication. Ninety-seven ...
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(2011-11-23)Department: Nursing ScienceRAPE TRAUMA: A STUDY OF PREFERRED RAPE DISCLOSURE METHODS AND FACTORS INFLUENCING PSYCHOLOGICAL OUTCOMES IN RAPE VICTIMS CARRIE M. CARRETTA Dissertation under the direction of Professor Sheila H. Ridner, PhD, RN, FAAN This ...