J I Constans

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Country: USA

Publications

  1. ncbi Suppression of attentional bias in PTSD
    Joseph I Constans
    Mental Health Service, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, and Department of Psychiatry and Neurology, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, LA 70112 1262, USA
    J Abnorm Psychol 113:315-23. 2004
  2. ncbi Worry propensity and the perception of risk
    J I Constans
    Mental Health Service COS6, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, New Orleans, LA 70112 1262, USA
    Behav Res Ther 39:721-9. 2001
  3. ncbi Stability of worry content in GAD patients: a descriptive study
    Joseph I Constans
    Department of Psychiatry, Louisiana State University School of Medicine, New Orleans, USA
    J Anxiety Disord 16:311-9. 2002
  4. ncbi Attention and memory dysfunction in posttraumatic stress disorder
    J J Vasterling
    Mental Health Service Line C056, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, New Orleans, Louisiana 70146, USA
    Neuropsychology 12:125-33. 1998
  5. ncbi Attentional reactions to an MI: the impact of mood state, worry, and coping style
    J I Constans
    New Orleans Veterans Affairs Medical Center, LA 70112 1262, USA
    J Psychosom Res 46:415-23. 1999
  6. ncbi Head injury as a predictor of psychological outcome in combat veterans
    J J Vasterling
    Mental Health Service, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, New Orleans, LA 70112, USA
    J Trauma Stress 13:441-51. 2000
  7. ncbi Attention, learning, and memory performances and intellectual resources in Vietnam veterans: PTSD and no disorder comparisons
    Jennifer J Vasterling
    Mental Health Service Line, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, New Orleans, Louisiana 70112, USA
    Neuropsychology 16:5-14. 2002
  8. ncbi PTSD symptoms, life events, and unit cohesion in U.S. soldiers: baseline findings from the neurocognition deployment health study
    Kevin Brailey
    Southeast Louisiana Veterans Health Care System and Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, USA
    J Trauma Stress 20:495-503. 2007
  9. ncbi Impact of threat relevance on P3 event-related potentials in combat-related post-traumatic stress disorder
    M S Stanford
    Department of Psychology, University of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA 70148, USA
    Psychiatry Res 102:125-37. 2001
  10. ncbi Interpretive biases for ambiguous stimuli in social anxiety
    J I Constans
    New Orleans Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Mental Health Service COS6, New Orleans, LA 70146, USA
    Behav Res Ther 37:643-51. 1999

Detail Information

Publications11

  1. ncbi Suppression of attentional bias in PTSD
    Joseph I Constans
    Mental Health Service, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, and Department of Psychiatry and Neurology, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, LA 70112 1262, USA
    J Abnorm Psychol 113:315-23. 2004
    ..Potential theoretical explanations of the findings are discussed...
  2. ncbi Worry propensity and the perception of risk
    J I Constans
    Mental Health Service COS6, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, New Orleans, LA 70112 1262, USA
    Behav Res Ther 39:721-9. 2001
    ..These results are used to argue that the elevations in state anxiety observed when worriers are confronted with a stressful event are largely a function of risk inflation...
  3. ncbi Stability of worry content in GAD patients: a descriptive study
    Joseph I Constans
    Department of Psychiatry, Louisiana State University School of Medicine, New Orleans, USA
    J Anxiety Disord 16:311-9. 2002
    ..Most participants did identify new worry topics during the course of the 12-month period, and the frequency and intensity of the new worries were comparable to the decrease in frequency and intensity of the original worries...
  4. ncbi Attention and memory dysfunction in posttraumatic stress disorder
    J J Vasterling
    Mental Health Service Line C056, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, New Orleans, Louisiana 70146, USA
    Neuropsychology 12:125-33. 1998
    ..Results suggest that intrusion of traumatic memories in PTSD may not be limited to trauma-related cognitions but instead reflects a more general pattern of disinhibition...
  5. ncbi Attentional reactions to an MI: the impact of mood state, worry, and coping style
    J I Constans
    New Orleans Veterans Affairs Medical Center, LA 70112 1262, USA
    J Psychosom Res 46:415-23. 1999
    ..Level of emotional distress and cardiac-related worry failed to predict attentional bias for the post-MI subjects...
  6. ncbi Head injury as a predictor of psychological outcome in combat veterans
    J J Vasterling
    Mental Health Service, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, New Orleans, LA 70112, USA
    J Trauma Stress 13:441-51. 2000
    ..Comparisons between veterans with and without history of head injury indicated that head injury was associated with more severe depression. Regression analysis suggested that head injury predicted depression, but not PTSD, severity...
  7. ncbi Attention, learning, and memory performances and intellectual resources in Vietnam veterans: PTSD and no disorder comparisons
    Jennifer J Vasterling
    Mental Health Service Line, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, New Orleans, Louisiana 70112, USA
    Neuropsychology 16:5-14. 2002
    ..Results suggested that although intellectual resources may constitute a vulnerability-protective factor for PTSD development, PTSD was associated with cognitive impairment independent of intellectual functioning...
  8. ncbi PTSD symptoms, life events, and unit cohesion in U.S. soldiers: baseline findings from the neurocognition deployment health study
    Kevin Brailey
    Southeast Louisiana Veterans Health Care System and Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, USA
    J Trauma Stress 20:495-503. 2007
    ..These symptoms may serve as vulnerabilities that could potentially be activated by subsequent war-zone deployment. Higher predeployment unit cohesion levels appear to ameliorate such symptoms, potentially lessening future vulnerability...
  9. ncbi Impact of threat relevance on P3 event-related potentials in combat-related post-traumatic stress disorder
    M S Stanford
    Department of Psychology, University of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA 70148, USA
    Psychiatry Res 102:125-37. 2001
    ..Results are consistent with resource allocation models of PTSD, which suggest that PTSD is characterized by attentional bias to threat stimuli at the expense of attention to emotionally neutral information...
  10. ncbi Interpretive biases for ambiguous stimuli in social anxiety
    J I Constans
    New Orleans Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Mental Health Service COS6, New Orleans, LA 70146, USA
    Behav Res Ther 37:643-51. 1999
    ..No group differences emerged in interpretations of events that involved non-personal stimuli suggesting there is content specificity in the interpretive biases associated with social-anxiety...
  11. ncbi Anxiety-related differences in affective categorizations of lexical stimuli
    Gina M Manguno-Mire
    School of Medicine, Tulane University Health Sciences Center, Department of Psychiatry and Neurology TB 53, 1440 Canal Street, New Orleans, LA 70112 2715, USA
    Behav Res Ther 43:197-213. 2005
    ..No group differences for nonword stimuli emerged, suggesting that anxiety-related response bias tendencies are activated only after detection of a weak semantic signal...