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The Relation of Trauma to the Persistence of Functional Abdominal Pain from Childhood into Adolescence and Young Adulthood
(Vanderbilt University, 2012-03)
Traumatic life experiences in childhood, particularly sexual and physical assault and abuse, have been consistently related to poor physical and mental health outcomes later in life. There is some evidence linking such ...
The Effects of Withdrawal Treatment on Attentional Biases towards Drug Cues in Opioid Addiction
(Vanderbilt University, 2012-03)
To investigate attentional biases in drug addiction, the Emotional Blink of Attention paradigm was used to study opioid-dependent patients undergoing inpatient withdrawal treatment at the Vanderbilt Psychiatric Hospital. ...
Obesity and Mental Health in Adolescents
(Vanderbilt University, 2012-04)
The study examined the relationship between obesity and depression, conduct disorder, and substance abuse in adolescents using data from the 2008 National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health. Depression at baseline was ...
Working to win vs. working to keep: Prospect Theory and effort-based decision-making in humans
(Vanderbilt University, 2012-04-03)
Reward processing studies of anhedonia have provided a great deal of support to the idea that this common symptom of depression and schizophrenia is characterized in part by decreased motivation to pursue rewards. However, ...
Psychopathology and Treatment Seeking of Parents of Children in Treatment for Psychiatric Problems
(Vanderbilt University, 2012-04-03)