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Fear conditioning in panic disorder: Enhanced resistance to extinctionTanja Michael
Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, Institute for Psychology, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
J Abnorm Psychol 116:612-7. 2007..This suggests that PD patients show enhanced conditionability with respect to extinction...
The influence of state anxiety on the acquisition and extinction of fearNoortje Vriends
Department of Psychology, Division of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, University Basel, Missionsstrasse 62a, CH 4055, Basel, Switzerland
J Behav Ther Exp Psychiatry 42:46-53. 2011..Since these studies provide circumstantial evidence for a causal link between anxiety and conditionability we examined fear conditionability after experimental induction of anxiety in two experiments...- Rumination in posttraumatic stress disorderTanja Michael
Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
Depress Anxiety 24:307-17. 2007..These characteristics explained significantly more variance in PTSD severity than the mere presence of rumination, thereby indicating that not all ways of ruminative thinking are equally maladaptive... - Enhanced perceptual priming for neutral stimuli occurring in a traumatic context: two experimental investigationsT Michael
Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Warneford Hospital, Oxford, OX3 7JX, UK
Behav Res Ther 45:341-58. 2007..The results support the role of perceptual priming in intrusions after traumatic events... - Instability of physical anxiety symptoms in daily life of patients with panic disorder and patients with posttraumatic stress disorderMonique C Pfaltz
University of Basel, Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, Faculty of Psychology, Missionsstrasse 60 62, CH 4055 Basel, Switzerland
J Anxiety Disord 24:792-8. 2010..Electronic diaries can be applied in innovative ways to provide novel insights into the phenomenology of anxiety disorders that may not be captured well by retrospective interviews and questionnaires... - Autonomic and respiratory characteristics of posttraumatic stress disorder and panic disorderJens Blechert
Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, University of Basel, Missionsstrasse 60 62, CH 4055 Basel, Switzerland
Psychosom Med 69:935-43. 2007..In contrast, PD has been associated with respiratory abnormalities such as low end-tidal Pco(2). An integrated analysis of automatic and respiratory function in a direct comparison of these anxiety disorders is currently lacking... - Reinstatement of fear in humans: autonomic and experiential responses in a differential conditioning paradigmSandra Kull
Faculty of Psychology, Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, University of Basel, Missionsstrasse 60 62, 4055 Basel, Switzerland
Acta Psychol (Amst) 140:43-9. 2012..Results are discussed with respect to context conditioning, fear generalisation, and anxiety-related cognitive mechanisms underlying fear recovery after extinction... - Enhanced priming for trauma-related material in posttraumatic stress disorderTanja Michael
Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, England
Emotion 5:103-12. 2005..The enhanced priming effect was specific to trauma-related words. Enhanced perceptual priming for traumatic material appears to be one of the cognitive processes operating in PTSD... - Randomized controlled comparison of two cognitive behavioral therapies for obese children: mother versus mother-child cognitive behavioral therapySimone Munsch
Faculty of Psychology, Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Psychother Psychosom 77:235-46. 2008..Parent-child treatments have been shown to be superior to child-focused treatments of childhood obesity. Yet until now, the comparative effectiveness of parent-only and parent-child approaches has been little studied... 
Glucocorticoids enhance extinction-based psychotherapyDominique J F de Quervain
Division of Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Psychology, University of Basel, 4055 Basel, Switzerland
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 108:6621-5. 2011..The present findings indicate that the administration of cortisol can enhance extinction-based psychotherapy...- Physical activity and respiratory behavior in daily life of patients with panic disorder and healthy controlsMonique C Pfaltz
University of Basel, Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, Institute for Psychology, Missionsstrasse 60 62, CH 4055 Basel, Switzerland
Int J Psychophysiol 78:42-9. 2010.... - Fear conditioning in posttraumatic stress disorder: evidence for delayed extinction of autonomic, experiential, and behavioural responsesJens Blechert
Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, Institute for Psychology, University of Basel, Missionsstrasse 60 62, CH 4055 Basel, Switzerland
Behav Res Ther 45:2019-33. 2007..In addition, there was some evidence that a subgroup of PTSD patients had difficulties in learning the CS-US contingency, thereby providing preliminary evidence of reduced discrimination learning... - Respiratory pathophysiology of panic disorder: an ambulatory monitoring studyMonique C Pfaltz
Faculty of Psychology, Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, University of Basel, CH 4055 Basel, Switzerland
Psychosom Med 71:869-76. 2009.... - Associative learning in flying phobiaNoortje Vriends
Division of Clinical Psychology and Psychiatry, Department of Psychology, University of Basel, Missionsstrasse 62a, 4055 Basel, Switzerland
J Behav Ther Exp Psychiatry 43:838-43. 2012..The current study investigated associative learning in patients with flying phobia and healthy controls using a modified version of Olson and Fazio's associative learning paradigm (Olson & Fazio, 2001)... - Posttraumatic stress disorder following assault: the role of cognitive processing, trauma memory, and appraisalsSarah L Halligan
Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, England
J Consult Clin Psychol 71:419-31. 2003..Assault severity measures explained 22% of symptom variance; measures of cognitive processing, memory disorganization, and appraisals increased prediction accuracy to 71%... - Subtypes of social phobia: are they of any use?Noortje Vriends
Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, University of Basel, Switzerland
J Anxiety Disord 21:59-75. 2007..The heterogeneity within social phobia has to be seen as a continuum of severity of social phobia, with a greater number of feared situations associated with more functional, social and psychological disability... - One-session computer-based exposure treatment for spider-fearful individuals--efficacy of a minimal self-help intervention in a randomised controlled trialBirgit H Müller
Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, University of Basel, Missionsstrasse 60 62, CH 4055 Basel, Switzerland
J Behav Ther Exp Psychiatry 42:179-84. 2011..These findings highlight the role of computer-based self-help as a minimal but effective intervention to reduce fear of spiders... - Age of traumatisation as a predictor of post-traumatic stress disorder or major depression in young womenAndreas Maercker
Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Br J Psychiatry 184:482-7. 2004.... - Enhancing exposure therapy for anxiety disorders with glucocorticoids: from basic mechanisms of emotional learning to clinical applicationsDorothée Bentz
Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, Faculty of Psychology, University of Basel, CH 4055 Basel, Switzerland
J Anxiety Disord 24:223-30. 2010..This review examines the processes involved in aversive conditioning, fear learning and fear extinction, and how glucocorticoids might enhance restructuring of fear memories during therapy... - Restrained eating in overweight children: does eating style run in families?Simone Munsch
Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, Faculty of Psychology, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Int J Pediatr Obes 2:97-103. 2007..Our findings point to a familial transmission of eating styles: children eat as their primary caregivers do, even when the caregivers are not present in the laboratory... - Reduced response to reward in smokers and cannabis usersChantal Martin-Soelch
Department of Psychiatry, University Hospital of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Neuropsychobiology 60:94-103. 2009.... - Identifying anxiety states using broad sampling and advanced processing of peripheral physiological informationJens Blechert
Institute for Psychology, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Biomed Sci Instrum 42:136-41. 2006..Results demonstrate the necessity to include measures from multiple response domains for an adequate assessment of anxiety states. Furthermore, our results point to the significance of respiratory parameters in anxiety assessment... - A randomized comparison of cognitive behavioral therapy and behavioral weight loss treatment for overweight individuals with binge eating disorderSimone Munsch
Institute of Psychology, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Int J Eat Disord 40:102-13. 2007..The aim of this study was to determine the efficacy of cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) and behavioral weight loss treatment (BWLT) for overweight patients with binge eating disorder (BED)... - Intrusive images in PTSD and in traumatised and non-traumatised depressed patients: a cross-sectional clinical studyEva Birrer
Klinik fuer Schlafmedizin, St Anna Str 32, 6006 Luzern, Switzerland
Behav Res Ther 45:2053-65. 2007..Limitations, such as the lack of a control group, and the clinical implications of these results are discussed, demonstrating the need to help non-PTSD patients with and without trauma to deal with intrusive images... - Reduced heart rate responding to trauma reliving in trauma survivors with PTSD: correlates and consequencesSarah L Halligan
School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences, University of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom
J Trauma Stress 19:721-34. 2006..B. Foa and M. J. Kozak's (1986) hypothesis that full activation of trauma memories facilitates emotional processing... - Enhanced perceptual priming for neutral stimuli in a traumatic context: A pathway to intrusive memories?Anke Ehlers
Department of Psychology, Institute of Psychiatry, King s College, London, UK
Memory 14:316-28. 2006..Enhanced priming predicted subsequent re-experiencing symptoms. The results support the role of perceptual priming in re-experiencing... - Intrusive re-experiencing in post-traumatic stress disorder: phenomenology, theory, and therapyAnke Ehlers
Department of Psychology, Institute of Psychiatry, London, UK
Memory 12:403-15. 2004....