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Cognitive bias modification for anxiety: current evidence and future directionsCourtney Beard
Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Box G BH, Providence, RI 02912, USA
Expert Rev Neurother 11:299-311. 2011..This article focuses on the theoretical rationale for CBM and the current evidence from analogue and clinical samples...
Attention bias for sexual words in female sexual dysfunctionCourtney Beard
Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA
J Sex Marital Ther 36:216-26. 2010..As expected, female participants with sexual dysfunction showed an attention bias to sexual words, whereas control participants did not. The authors discuss implications for models of sexual dysfunction and clinical intervention...- Socially anxious primary care patients' attitudes toward cognitive bias modification (CBM): a qualitative studyCourtney Beard
Alpert Medical School of Brown University, USA
Behav Cogn Psychother 40:618-33. 2012..To date, attitudes toward and acceptability of CBM have not been systematically examined... - Efficacy of attention bias modification using threat and appetitive stimuli: a meta-analytic reviewCourtney Beard
Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, RI 02906, USA
Behav Ther 43:724-40. 2012..ABM has a moderate and robust effect on attention bias when using threat stimuli. Further studies are needed to determine whether these effects are also robust when using appetitive stimuli and for affecting subjective experiences... - Combined cognitive bias modification treatment for social anxiety disorder: a pilot trialCourtney Beard
Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island 02912, USA
Depress Anxiety 28:981-8. 2011..However, previous randomized trials have not systematically examined the combination of CBM for attention (CBM-A) and interpretation (CBM-I) or the credibility and acceptability of these protocols... - Psychometric properties of the Liebowitz Social Anxiety Scale (LSAS) in a longitudinal study of African Americans with anxiety disordersCourtney Beard
Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, USA
J Anxiety Disord 25:722-6. 2011..Overall, the LSAS performed similarly in our African American sample as in previous European American samples. Exploratory factor analyses are warranted to determine whether a better factor structure exists for African Americans... - Health-related Quality of Life across the anxiety disorders: findings from a sample of primary care patientsCourtney Beard
Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Providence, RI 02912, USA
J Anxiety Disord 24:559-64. 2010..The current study extends previous research by showing that different anxiety disorders and comorbid conditions may be associated with impairment in specific domains of HR-QoL... - Characteristics and predictors of social phobia course in a longitudinal study of primary-care patientsCourtney Beard
Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, USA
Depress Anxiety 27:839-45. 2010..To date, few researchers have examined the natural course of SP in primary care. We examined the natural course and predictors of recovery in a large sample of primary-care patients... - A multi-session interpretation modification program: changes in interpretation and social anxiety symptomsCourtney Beard
Department of Psychology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA
Behav Res Ther 46:1135-41. 2008..Moreover, changes in benign interpretation mediated IMP's effect on social anxiety. This initial trial suggests that interpretation modification may have clinical utility when applied as a multi-session intervention... - Impact of stressful life events on the course of panic disorder in adultsEthan Moitra
Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, United States
J Affect Disord 134:373-6. 2011..However, limited attention has been paid to how SLEs might affect the severity of panic symptoms in individuals with PD/PDA. In this study, we examined the relationship between SLEs and panic symptom severity in adults with PD/PDA... - The Harvard/Brown Anxiety Research Project-Phase II (HARP-II): rationale, methods, and features of the sample at intakeRisa B Weisberg
Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, United States Risa
J Anxiety Disord 26:532-43. 2012..g., discrimination, acculturation, negative affect). Results should lead to improved understanding, prognostics, and treatment of anxiety in diverse populations... - The effect of a single-session attention modification program on response to a public-speaking challenge in socially anxious individualsNader Amir
Department of Psychology, San Diego State University, 6386 Alvarado Court, San Diego, CA 92182, USA
J Abnorm Psychol 117:860-8. 2008..Moreover, blind raters judged the speeches of those in the AMP group as better than those in the ACC group. These results are consistent with the hypothesis that attention plays a causal role in the maintenance of social anxiety... - Occupational impairment and Social Anxiety Disorder in a sample of primary care patientsEthan Moitra
Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Alpert Medical School of Brown University, United States
J Affect Disord 130:209-12. 2011..In this study, we compared workplace functioning in primary care patients with SAD to patients with other anxiety disorders and comorbid Major Depressive Disorder (MDD)... - Attention modification program in individuals with generalized anxiety disorderNader Amir
Department of Psychology, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA 92120 4913, USA
J Abnorm Psychol 118:28-33. 2009..These effects were not present in the ACC group. These results are consistent with the hypothesis that attention plays a causal role in the maintenance of GAD and suggest that altering attention mechanisms may effectively reduce anxiety... - Attention training to reduce attention bias and social stressor reactivity: an attempt to replicate and extend previous findingsKristin Julian
Department of Psychology, Southern Methodist University, Dedman College, Dallas, TX 75275, USA
Behav Res Ther 50:350-8. 2012..The failure to replicate previous findings is discussed... 
Resolving ambiguity: the effect of experience on interpretation of ambiguous events in generalized social phobiaNader Amir
Department of Psychology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30606, USA
J Abnorm Psychol 114:402-8. 2005..GSP participants did not show this pattern in learning a nonthreat meaning of a homograph. These results support the hypothesis that a faulty learning mechanism may be involved in social anxiety...