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| J M G WilliamsSummaryAffiliation: University of Oxford Country: UK Publications
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Reduced specificity of autobiographical memory and depression: the role of executive controlTim Dalgleish
Emotion Research Group, Medical Research Council Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge, England
J Exp Psychol Gen 136:23-42. 2007..The potential role of executive control in accounting for other aspects of the AMT literature is discussed...
Pre-adult onset and patterns of suicidality in patients with a history of recurrent depressionJ Mark G Williams
University of Oxford, Department of Psychiatry, Warneford Hospital, Oxford, OX3 7JX, UK
J Affect Disord 138:173-9. 2012....
Effects of analytical and experiential self-focus on stress-induced cognitive reactivity in eating disorder psychopathologyAdhip Rawal
Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, UK
Behav Res Ther 49:635-45. 2011..Examining the mode within which individuals with ED psychopathology focus on self and body may raise important implications for understanding of psychopathology and open new possibilities for augmenting current treatments...
Autobiographical memory specificity and emotional disorderJ Mark G Williams
Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Psychol Bull 133:122-48. 2007....
Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) in bipolar disorder: preliminary evaluation of immediate effects on between-episode functioningJ M G Williams
University of Oxford, Department of Psychiatry, Warneford Hospital, Warneford Lane, Headington, Oxford, OX3 7JX, UK
J Affect Disord 107:275-9. 2008..This study aimed to explore the feasibility and potential benefits of a new psychological treatment (Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy: MBCT) for people with bipolar disorder focusing on between-episode anxiety and depressive symptoms...
Recurrence of suicidal ideation across depressive episodesJ M G Williams
University of Oxford, UK
J Affect Disord 91:189-94. 2006....
Mindfulness and psychological processJ Mark G Williams
University Department of Psychiatry, Warneford Hospital, Oxford, UK
Emotion 10:1-7. 2010..The implications of these findings for understanding emotion and for further research is discussed...
Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy for prevention of recurrence of suicidal behaviorJ Mark G Williams
Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, UK
J Clin Psychol 62:201-10. 2006..An ongoing controlled trial will provide further evidence, but pilot work suggests that MBCT is a promising intervention for those who have experienced suicidal ideation in the past...
Problem solving deteriorates following mood challenge in formerly depressed patients with a history of suicidal ideationJ Mark G Williams
Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
J Abnorm Psychol 114:421-31. 2005..The deterioration in effectiveness following mood challenge was moderated by lack of specificity in autobiographical memory...
Staying well after depression: trial design and protocolJ Mark G Williams
Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Warneford Hospital, Oxford, UK
BMC Psychiatry 10:23. 2010..Therefore the question how to prevent relapse is of particular urgency in this group...
Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy: further issues in current evidence and future researchJ Mark G Williams
Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
J Consult Clin Psychol 76:524-9. 2008..T. Beck, C. H. Ward, M. Mendelson, J. Mock, & J. Erbaugh, 1961) after treatment...
Dysfunctional beliefs in bipolar disorder: hypomanic vs. depressive attitudesY Alatiq
University of Oxford, Department of Psychiatry, Warneford Hospital, Warneford Lane, Headington, Oxford OX3 7JX, UK
J Affect Disord 122:294-300. 2010..The current study examines whether Mansell's hypomania-related dysfunctional belief scale specifically identifies bipolar disorder patients...
Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy may reduce thought suppression in previously suicidal participants: findings from a preliminary studySilvia R Hepburn
University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Br J Clin Psychol 48:209-15. 2009..This preliminary study examined effects of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) on thought suppression and depression in individuals with past depression and suicidality...
Effects of mindfulness on meta-awareness and specificity of describing prodromal symptoms in suicidal depressionEmily Hargus
University of Oxford, Department of Psychiatry, Warneford Hospital, Oxford, England
Emotion 10:34-42. 2010....
Rumination, experiential avoidance, and dysfunctional thinking in eating disordersAdhip Rawal
Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
Behav Res Ther 48:851-9. 2010..These findings highlight cognitive processes that may play an important role in the maintenance of eating pathology...
The association between life events and suicide intent in self-poisoners with and without a history of deliberate self-harm: a preliminary studyCatherine Crane
Centre for Suicide Research, University of Oxford Department of Psychiatry, Warneford Hospital, Oxford, UK
Suicide Life Threat Behav 37:367-78. 2007..The results provide preliminary evidence to suggest the presence of a suicidal process in women, in which the impact of negative life events on suicide intent diminishes across episodes...
Imagery about suicide in depression--"Flash-forwards"?Emily A Holmes
Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, UK
J Behav Ther Exp Psychiatry 38:423-34. 2007..These results provide the first data to our knowledge on the existence of mental imagery in suicidality, opening a promising new avenue for research...
Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy as a treatment for chronic depression: A preliminary studyThorsten Barnhofer
Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Warneford Hospital, Oxford OX3 7JX, UK
Behav Res Ther 47:366-73. 2009....
Low-dose tryptophan depletion in recovered depressed women induces impairments in autobiographical memory specificityAnneke D M Haddad
Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford, UK
Psychopharmacology (Berl) 207:499-508. 2009....
Reflection, brooding, and suicidality: a preliminary study of different types of rumination in individuals with a history of major depressionCatherine Crane
Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Br J Clin Psychol 46:497-504. 2007..To examine the relationship between reflection, brooding, and suicidality in participants with a history of major depression...
The effects of analytical and experiential rumination on autobiographical memory specificity in individuals with a history of major depressionCatherine Crane
Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Warneford Hospital, Oxford OX3 7JX, UK
Behav Res Ther 45:3077-87. 2007....
Effects of meditation on frontal alpha-asymmetry in previously suicidal individualsThorsten Barnhofer
Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Warneford Hospital, Oxford, UK
Neuroreport 18:709-12. 2007..The findings suggest that MBCT can help individuals at high risk for suicidal depression to retain a balanced pattern of baseline emotion-related brain activation...
Failures to retrieve specific memories in previously depressed individuals: random errors or content-related?Thorsten Barnhofer
Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Warneford Hospital, Oxford, UK
Behav Res Ther 45:1859-69. 2007..The findings provide qualified support for a role of content and demonstrate how, in previously depressed individuals, content effects can surface when cognitive control is undermined...
The role of autobiographical memory specificity in deliberate self-harm: correlates and consequencesJulia M A Sinclair
Centre for Suicide Research, University Department of Psychiatry, Warneford Hospital, Oxford OX3 7JX, UK
J Affect Disord 102:11-8. 2007..However it is not clear which clinical variables are associated with low memory specificity in this group, or whether low specificity is particularly associated with recent DSH...
Self-discrepancy in students with bipolar disorder II or NOSY Alatiq
University of Oxford, Department of Psychiatry, Warneford Hospital, Oxford, UK
J Behav Ther Exp Psychiatry 41:135-9. 2010....
Reduced autobiographical memory specificity as an avoidant coping styleDirk Hermans
Department of Psychology, University of Leuven, Belgium
Br J Clin Psychol 44:583-9. 2005..Previous studies suggest that reduced autobiographical memory specificity might serve as a way of regulating affect. This study examined the relationship between autobiographical memory specificity and avoidant coping...
Reduced specificity of autobiographical memory: a mediator between rumination and ineffective social problem-solving in major depression?Filip Raes
Department of Psychology, University of Leuven, Tiensestraat 102, 3000 Leuven, Belgium
J Affect Disord 87:331-5. 2005..The present study investigated the role of reduced specificity of autobiographical memories as a mediator of this relationship...
Autobiographical memory specificity and emotional abuseFilip Raes
Department of Psychology, University of Leuven, Belgium
Br J Clin Psychol 44:133-8. 2005..Examined the relationship between trauma and memory specificity and the importance in this of level of support received...
Teasdale's differential activation hypothesis: implications for mechanisms of depressive relapse and suicidal behaviourMark A Lau
Department of Psychiatry, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, University of Toronto, 250 College Street, Ontario, Canada M5T 1R8
Behav Res Ther 42:1001-17. 2004..Furthermore, we extend the application of this model to the problem of suicidal relapse/recurrence including a review of preliminary support for this approach...
Autobiographical memory specificity and affect regulation: an experimental approachFilip Raes
Department of Psychology, University of Leuven, Belgium
Emotion 3:201-6. 2003..Results are discussed within the affect-regulation model. It is suggested that future research take a more functional perspective on AM specificity...
A sentence completion procedure as an alternative to the Autobiographical Memory Test for assessing overgeneral memory in non-clinical populationsFilip Raes
Department of Psychology, University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
Memory 15:495-507. 2007..Study 2 further showed that this enhanced sensitivity is most likely due to the omission of the instruction to be specific rather than to the SCEPT's sentence completion format (as opposed to free recall to cue words)...
Is overgeneral autobiographical memory an isolated memory phenomenon in major depression?Filip Raes
University of Leuven, Belgium
Memory 14:584-94. 2006..Furthermore, in line with Ramponi et al. (2004), rumination was found to be related to both overgeneral AM and poor source memory...
Autobiographical memory in the euthymic phase of recurrent depressionPhilip Spinhoven
Department of Psychology, Leiden University, Netherlands
J Abnorm Psychol 115:590-600. 2006..The results suggest that memory specificity may reflect a global cognitive impairment that remains in patients who (formerly) had depression but does not constitute a trait marker for vulnerability for relapse/recurrence...
Negative bias in the perception of others' facial emotional expressions in major depression: the role of depressive ruminationFilip Raes
Department of Psychology, University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
J Nerv Ment Dis 194:796-9. 2006....
Reduced autobiographical memory specificity and rumination in predicting the course of depressionFilip Raes
Department of Psychology, University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
J Abnorm Psychol 115:699-704. 2006..Further mediation analyses indeed revealed support for rumination as a mediator of the relation between reduced AM specificity and poor outcome of depression...
Overgeneral memory predicts stability of short-term outcome of electroconvulsive therapy for depressionFilip Raes
Department of Psychology, University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
J ECT 24:81-3. 2008..To investigate the predictive value of overgeneral memory (OGM) for outcome of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) for depression...
Initial psychometric properties of the experiences questionnaire: validation of a self-report measure of decenteringDavid M Fresco
Department of Psychology, 226 Kent Hall Annex, Kent State University, Kent, OH 44242, USA
Behav Ther 38:234-46. 2007..Findings from this series of studies offer initial support for the EQ as a measure of decentering...
Impairments in working memory associated with naturalistic dieting in women: no relationship between task performance and urinary 5-HIAA levelsMichael W Green
Unilever Research, Colworth Laboratory, UK
Appetite 40:145-53. 2003..They do not support the hypothesis that the serotonergic function of dieters is compromised, although this conclusion is tentative...
