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The Effects of Safety Behaviors on Health Anxiety: Conceptualizing Hypochondriasis as an Anxiety Disorder
(Vanderbilt University, 2009-04-12)
Research in the anxiety disorders has shown that safety behaviors function to maintain pathological anxiety by preventing the disconfirmation of inaccurate threat beliefs. The present study examined if such safety behaviors ...
Emotion regulation of fear and disgust: Implications for anxiety disorders
(Vanderbilt University, 2014-04-04)
Although the emotion of fear has been central to traditional conceptualizations of the development and treatment of anxiety disorders, recent research suggests that the emotion of disgust may also play an important role ...
The Effect of Encouragement on Defensive Pessimism as an Anxiety Amplifier
(Vanderbilt University, 2009-04)
The past literature indicates that performance is disrupted for defensive pessimists by encouragement. The goals of this research were to replicate this phenomenon, and then examine the mechanisms underlying it. Specifically, ...
Parents and Children Coping with Pediatric Cancer
(Vanderbilt University, 2007-04-06)
Children who are diagnosed with cancer and their families must learn to cope with and communicate about the cancer diagnosis, treatment and its side effects, and hospital stays. Parents are their primary support; they are ...
Chronic Pain and Anxiety in Children: Physiological and Emotional Factors in Stress Responses
(Vanderbilt University, 2007-05-08)
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Investigating Brain Networks in Anxious-Misery and Fear Symptom Dimensions
(Vanderbilt University, 2022-03)
Anxiety and depressive symptoms can be dissociated into anxious-misery and fear components;
however, little is known about how these two symptom dimensions differ in terms of brain
network properties. Thus, the purpose ...
The Relationship Between Trauma Exposure and Memory Impairment: The Mediating Effect of Anxiety, Depression, and Sleep Disturbance
(Vanderbilt University, 2024-03-25)
The impact of trauma on individuals can have a profound and lasting effect on wellbeing. Ongoing research in the field is interested in the neurocognitive impact of trauma, including its effect on memory. However, there ...