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| Nader AmirSummaryAffiliation: San Diego State University Country: USA Publications
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The effect of single-session interpretation modification on attention bias in socially anxious individualsNader Amir
Joint Doctoral Program of San Diego State University University of California, San Diego, CA 92120 4913, United States
J Anxiety Disord 24:178-82. 2010..These results are consistent with the hypothesis that information processing biases in anxious individuals may share a common mechanism that may contribute to the maintenance of anxiety...
Combining computerized home-based treatments for generalized anxiety disorder: an attention modification program and cognitive behavioral therapyNader Amir
Program in Clinical Psychology, Department of Psychology, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA 92120 4913, USA
Behav Ther 43:546-59. 2012..2006). These results suggest that computer-delivered AMP+CCBT may serve as an effective and easily accessible treatment option for individuals with GAD...- Interpretation training in individuals with generalized social anxiety disorder: a randomized controlled trialNader Amir
Department of Psychology, San Diego State University
J Consult Clin Psychol 80:497-511. 2012..To examine the efficacy of a multisession computerized interpretation modification program (IMP) in the treatment of generalized social anxiety disorder (GSAD)... - Predictors of response to an attention modification program in generalized social phobiaNader Amir
Department of Psychology, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA 92120, USA
J Consult Clin Psychol 79:533-41. 2011..In this study we examined patient characteristics that predicted response to AMP in a large sample of individuals diagnosed with generalized social phobia... - Working memory capacity in generalized social phobiaNader Amir
Joint Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology, San Diego State University and University of California, San Diego, CA 92120 4913, USA
J Abnorm Psychol 120:504-9. 2011..This enhanced working memory capacity for threat-relevant information may be the result of practice with this information in generalized social phobia... - Attention training in individuals with generalized social phobia: A randomized controlled trialNader Amir
SDSU UCSD Joint Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA 92120 4913, USA
J Consult Clin Psychol 77:961-73. 2009..Symptom reduction in the AMP group was maintained during 4-month follow-up assessment. These results suggest that computerized attention training procedures may be beneficial for treating social phobia... - Temporal allocation of attention toward threat in individuals with posttraumatic stress symptomsNader Amir
SDSU UCSD Joint Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology, Department of Psychology, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA 92120, USA
J Anxiety Disord 23:1080-5. 2009..These results suggest that individuals with PTSD may process trauma-relevant information more rapidly and efficiently than benign information... - 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... - The effect of retrieval on recall of information in individuals with posttraumatic stress disorderNader Amir
SDSU UCSD Joint Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology, San Diego State University, CA 92120 4913, USA
J Anxiety Disord 23:535-40. 2009..These findings are consistent with research indicating that individuals with PTSD may derive less benefit from rehearsal and display general inhibitory difficulties when compared to non-traumatized controls... - 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... - Threat processing in obsessive-compulsive disorder: evidence from a modified negative priming taskNader Amir
San Diego State University, Joint Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology, San Diego, CA 92120, USA
Behav Res Ther 46:728-36. 2008..These results suggest that for idiographic, OCD-relevant threat information, individuals with OCD show difficulty learning the contingency between the information in the prime and probe displays relative to the NACs... - Lack of a benign interpretation bias in social anxiety disorderNader Amir
Joint Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology, San Diego State University University of California, San Diego, CA 92120, USA
Cogn Behav Ther 41:119-29. 2012..Our results, when taken together, clearly implicate the role of reduced bias toward benign information in SAD... - Modifying automatic approach action tendencies in individuals with elevated social anxiety symptomsCharles T Taylor
Center for Understanding and Treating Anxiety, Department of Psychology, San Diego State University, CA 92120, United States
Behav Res Ther 50:529-36. 2012..These findings suggest that modifying automatic approach tendencies may facilitate engagement in the types of social approach behaviors that are important for relationship development... - Attentional bias away from positive social information mediates the link between social anxiety and anxiety vulnerability to a social stressorCharles T Taylor
SDSU UCSD Joint Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA 92120, USA
J Anxiety Disord 24:403-8. 2010..The current findings add to a nascent empirical literature suggesting that aberrant processing of positive social information may contribute to the persistence of excessive social anxiety... - Attention training for reducing spider fear in spider-fearful individualsHannah E Reese
Department of Psychology, Harvard University, 33 Kirkland St, Cambridge, MA 02138, United States
J Anxiety Disord 24:657-62. 2010..Alternatively, attention training may be an unsuitable intervention for spider fear... - Attentional impairment in anxiety: inefficiency in expanding the scope of attentionSadia Najmi
Joint Doctoral Program of San Diego State University University of California, San Diego, CA 92120, USA
Depress Anxiety 29:243-9. 2012..Research suggests, however, that this ability is compromised by anxiety such that anxiety results in narrowing the focus of visual attention... - Malleability of attentional bias for positive emotional information and anxiety vulnerabilityCharles T Taylor
SDSU UCSD Joint Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology, San Diego State University, CA, USA
Emotion 11:127-38. 2011..The current findings point to the potential value of considering the role of positive emotional processing in anxiety vulnerability... - Attenuation of attention bias in obsessive-compulsive disorderNader Amir
San Diego State University University of California, San Diego, Joint Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology, 6386 Alvarado Court, Suite 301, San Diego, CA 92120, USA
Behav Res Ther 47:153-7. 2009..A comparison of early and late blocks of trials revealed an attenuation of attention bias in individuals with OC symptoms, potentially reflecting habituation to threatening information over the course of the experiment... - 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... - Threat-related processing supports prospective memory retrieval for people with obsessive tendenciesRichard L Marsh
Department of Psychology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602 3013, USA
Memory 17:679-86. 2009..Thus, their normal attentional bias for extended processing of threat-related information overcame their natural deficit in event-based prospective memory... - Automatic avoidance tendencies in individuals with contamination-related obsessive-compulsive symptomsSadia Najmi
Joint Doctoral Program of San Diego State University University of California, San Diego, San Diego, CA, USA
Behav Res Ther 48:1058-62. 2010..Thus, our results validate the use of the AAT as a measure of inhibited and uninhibited automatic avoidance reactions to emotional information in individuals with contamination-related obsessive-compulsive symptoms... 
Increased activation of the anterior cingulate cortex during processing of disgust faces in individuals with social phobiaNader Amir
Department of Psychology, University of Georgia, Athens 30602 3013, USA
Biol Psychiatry 57:975-81. 2005..These studies have focused mostly on the activation of the amygdala. The anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) also has been implicated in processing emotional information, but its role in social phobia has not been examined...- The effect of attention training on a behavioral test of contamination fears in individuals with subclinical obsessive-compulsive symptomsSadia Najmi
Joint Doctoral Program, San Diego State University University of California, San Diego, CA, USA
J Abnorm Psychol 119:136-42. 2010..Our results suggest that attention disengagement training may facilitate approaching feared objects in individuals with obsessive-compulsive symptoms... - 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... - The relationship between cognitive control and posttraumatic stress symptomsJessica Bomyea
San Diego State University University of California, San Diego Joint Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology, San Diego, USA
J Behav Ther Exp Psychiatry 43:844-8. 2012..By this account, the relationship between cognitive control and emotional disorders would be specific to symptoms associated with intrusive cognitions, such as re-experiencing symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)... - A case series of attention modification in clinically anxious youthsMichelle Rozenman
SDSU UCSD Joint Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology, San Diego, CA 92120 4913, USA
Behav Res Ther 49:324-30. 2011..AMP was feasible with youths, and all youths and parents deemed the program acceptable. These findings provide support for further research on the use of cognitive bias modification interventions with clinically anxious youths... - Correction to amir and taylor (2012)Nader Amir
Department of Psychology, San Diego State University
J Consult Clin Psychol 81:74. 2013..training in individuals with generalized social anxiety disorder: A randomized controlled trial" by Nader Amir and Charles T. Taylor (Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 2012[Jun], Vol 80[3], 497-511)...
Research Grants
- Attention Disengagement Training for Social PhobiaNader Amir; Fiscal Year: 2007..2) Individuals with GSP completing ADT will show a larger reduction in their self-report of social anxiety symptoms compared to the placebo group. ..
- Attention Training and Relaxation for GAD: Testing the Efficacy of Home-DeliveryNader Amir; Fiscal Year: 2010..e., attention training and applied relaxation). ..
- Interpretation Modification Program for Social PhobiaNader Amir; Fiscal Year: 2007..2000) and 40% of individuals who present for treatment do not respond (39%, Heimberg, et al., 1998; 42%, Liebowitz et al., 2005). The goal of this project is develop and test a new computerized treatment for social phobia. ..