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Does fear reactivity during exposure predict panic symptom reduction?Alicia E Meuret
Department of Psychology, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX 72505, USA
J Consult Clin Psychol 80:773-85. 2012..We also investigated the degree to which treatment condition (cognitive training vs. respiratory skill training) moderated fear reactivity and therapeutic outcome...- Coping skills and exposure therapy in panic disorder and agoraphobia: latest advances and future directionsAlicia E Meuret
Department of Psychology, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX 72505, USA
Behav Ther 43:271-84. 2012..We examine the extant evidence on the role of traditional coping skills in augmenting exposure for panic disorder, discuss the limitations of existing research, and offer recommendations for methodological advances... - Do unexpected panic attacks occur spontaneously?Alicia E Meuret
Department of Psychology, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, USA
Biol Psychiatry 70:985-91. 2011..To test this hypothesis, we examined if points of significant autonomic changes preceded the onset of spontaneous panic attacks... - Feedback of end-tidal pCO2 as a therapeutic approach for panic disorderAlicia E Meuret
Department of Psychology, Southern Methodist University, 6424 Hilltop Lane, Dallas, TX 75205, United States
J Psychiatr Res 42:560-8. 2008..We tested the effectiveness of a new, brief, capnometry-assisted breathing therapy (BRT) on clinical and respiratory measures in PD... 
Targeting pCO(2) in asthma: pilot evaluation of a capnometry-assisted breathing trainingAlicia E Meuret
Department of Psychology, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX 75205, USA
Appl Psychophysiol Biofeedback 32:99-109. 2007..This pilot study aimed to evaluate the feasibility and potential benefits of a novel biofeedback breathing training for achieving sustained increases in pCO(2) levels...- Respiratory and cognitive mediators of treatment change in panic disorder: evidence for intervention specificityAlicia E Meuret
Department of Psychology, Southern Methodist University, 6424 Hilltop Lane, Dallas, TX 72505, USA
J Consult Clin Psychol 78:691-704. 2010..Our purpose in this study was to analyze pathways of change in theoretically distinct interventions using longitudinal, moderated mediation analyses... - Prevalence and correlates of asthma in children with internalizing psychopathologyAlicia E Meuret
Department of Psychology, Southern Methodist University, 6424 Hilltop Lane, Dallas, TX 75205, USA
Depress Anxiety 23:502-8. 2006..Though parent report of asthma diagnosis is commonly used in surveys of childhood asthma, our findings have to be viewed in the light of its limitations... - Panic attack symptom dimensions and their relationship to illness characteristics in panic disorderAlicia E Meuret
Department of Psychology, Southern Methodist University, 6424 Hilltop Lane, Dallas, TX 75205, USA
J Psychiatr Res 40:520-7. 2006..We conclude that partly independent panic symptom dimensions can be identified that have different implications for severity and control of panic disorder... - Hyperventilation in panic disorder and asthma: empirical evidence and clinical strategiesAlicia E Meuret
Department of Psychology, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX 75206, USA
Int J Psychophysiol 78:68-79. 2010..Raising CO2 levels by means of therapeutic capnometry has proven beneficial effects in both disorders, and the reversing of hyperventilation has emerged as a potent mediator for reductions in panic symptom severity and treatment success... - Changes in respiration mediate changes in fear of bodily sensations in panic disorderAlicia E Meuret
Department of Psychology, Southern Methodist University, P O Box 750442, Dallas, TX 75275, United States
J Psychiatr Res 43:634-41. 2009..The results provide little support for changes in fear of bodily sensations leading to changes in respiration, but rather suggest that breathing training targeting pCO(2) reduced fear of bodily sensations in panic disorder... 
Airway response to emotion- and disease-specific films in asthma, blood phobia, and healthThomas Ritz
Department of Psychology, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas 75205, USA
Psychophysiology 48:121-35. 2011..Leg muscle tension did not abolish R(os) increases. Thus, the airways are particularly responsive to BII-relevant stimuli, which could become risk factors for asthma patients...- Change point analysis for longitudinal physiological data: detection of cardio-respiratory changes preceding panic attacksDavid Rosenfield
Department of Psychology, Southern Methodist University, 6424 Hilltop Lane, Dallas, TX 75275, USA
Biol Psychol 84:112-20. 2010..The efficacy of our CP method was further validated by detecting patterns of change that were consistent with prominent respiratory theories of panic positing a relation between aberrant respiration and panic etiology... - Confrontation with blood and disgust stimuli precipitates respiratory dysregulation in blood-injection-injury phobiaErica S Ayala
Department of Psychology, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX 75275, USA
Biol Psychol 84:88-97. 2010.... - Do blood phobia patients hyperventilate during exposure by breathing faster, deeper, or both?Thomas Ritz
Department of Psychology, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas 75205, USA
Depress Anxiety 26:E60-7. 2009..Hyperventilation results from increases in minute ventilation above levels required by metabolic demand and can result from increases in either frequency or depth of breathing, or a combination of both... - Changes in pCO2, symptoms, and lung function of asthma patients during capnometry-assisted breathing trainingThomas Ritz
Department of Psychology, Southern Methodist University, 6424 Hilltop Lane, Dallas, TX 75205, USA
Appl Psychophysiol Biofeedback 34:1-6. 2009..With our current protocol of paced breathing and capnometry-assisted biofeedback at least 4 weeks are needed to achieve a normalization of pCO(2) levels and reduction in symptoms in asthma patients... - Preliminary evidence for cognitive mediation during cognitive-behavioral therapy of panic disorderStefan G Hofmann
Department of Psychology, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, USA
J Consult Clin Psychol 75:374-9. 2007..Multilevel moderated mediation analyses provided preliminary support for the notion that changes in panic-related cognitions mediate changes in panic severity only in treatments that include CBT... - Hyperventilation symptoms are linked to a lower perceived health in asthma patientsThomas Ritz
Department of Psychology, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX 75205, USA
Ann Behav Med 35:97-104. 2008..Hyperventilation symptoms are among the sensations asthma patients tend to report during exacerbations of their disease. However, little is known about their importance for the patients' perceived well-being... - Treatments for blood-injury-injection phobia: a critical review of current evidenceErica S Ayala
Department of Psychology, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX 75206, USA
J Psychiatr Res 43:1235-42. 2009..Further research is needed to determine the efficacy of treatment techniques for BII phobia patients with and without fainting history... - Hypoventilation training for asthma: a case illustrationAshton M Jeter
Department of Psychology, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX 75275, USA
Appl Psychophysiol Biofeedback 37:63-72. 2012..Improvements were accompanied by improvements in lung function and reductions in diurnal lung function variability. Improvements remained stable throughout follow-up... - The psychophysiology of blood-injection-injury phobia: looking beyond the diphasic response paradigmThomas Ritz
Department of Psychology, Southern Methodist University, P O Box 750442, Dallas, TX 75275 0442, USA
Int J Psychophysiol 78:50-67. 2010..The evidence may indicate a role for respiration-focused coping techniques in BII phobia... - The role of painful events and pain perception in blood-injection-injury fearsNoelle B Smith
Southern Methodist University, Department of Psychology, P O Box 750442, Dallas, TX 75275, USA
J Behav Ther Exp Psychiatry 43:1045-8. 2012..The relation of BII fears with self-reported tolerance and avoidance of physical discomfort and pain was also examined... - The effects of acute exercise on CO(2) challenge reactivityJasper A J Smits
Department of Psychology, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX 75275, USA
J Psychiatr Res 43:446-54. 2009..These findings are the first to demonstrate that the anti-panic effects of exercise are unique from, and cannot be better explained by, established risk factors of CO(2) challenge reactivity... - Respiratory muscle tension as symptom generator in individuals with high anxiety sensitivityThomas Ritz
Department of Psychology, Southern Methodist University, PO Box 750442, Dallas, TX 75275 0442, USA
Psychosom Med 75:187-95. 2013..We therefore examined the potential of intercostal muscle tension to elicit dyspnea in individuals with high anxiety sensitivity, a risk factor for developing panic disorder... - Sudden gains during therapy of social phobiaStefan G Hofmann
Department of Psychology, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, USA
J Consult Clin Psychol 74:687-97. 2006..In general, the results of this study question the clinical significance of sudden gains in social phobia treatment... - Electrophysiological correlates of spatial orienting towards angry faces: a source localization studyDiane L Santesso
Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
Neuropsychologia 46:1338-48. 2008..Results suggest that the earliest modulation of spatial attention by face stimuli is manifested in the P1 component, and provide insights about mechanisms underlying attentional orienting toward cues of threat and social disapproval... - Psychosocial factors and behavioral medicine interventions in asthmaThomas Ritz
Department of Psychology
J Consult Clin Psychol 81:231-50. 2013..PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2013 APA, all rights reserved)... - Discrepancies between lung function and asthma control: Asthma perception and association with demographics and anxietyAshton M Steele
Department of Psychology, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, USA
Allergy Asthma Proc 33:500-7. 2012..Normal perceivers in this sample tended to be older. Overperceivers tended to be female. Our findings encourage further research using the reported method of classifying asthma patients into perceiver categories... - Psychophysiological reactions to two levels of voluntary hyperventilation in panic disorderEileen Wollburg
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA
J Anxiety Disord 22:886-98. 2008..In general, differences between patients and controls in response to HV were in the cognitive-language rather than in the physiological realm... - Psychophysiological effects of breathing instructions for stress managementAnsgar Conrad
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, and the Veterans Affairs Health Care System, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA
Appl Psychophysiol Biofeedback 32:89-98. 2007..To understand the results of breathing instructions for stress and anxiety management, respiration needs to be monitored physiologically... - Voluntary hyperventilation in the treatment of panic disorder--functions of hyperventilation, their implications for breathing training, and recommendations for standardizationAlicia E Meuret
Center for Anxiety and Related Disorders, Boston University, USA
Clin Psychol Rev 25:285-306. 2005..We propose how VH procedures might be standardized in future studies... - Respiratory feedback for treating panic disorderAlicia E Meuret
Stanford University and the Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care System, Palo Alto, CA, USA
J Clin Psychol 60:197-207. 2004..Respiratory monitoring may provide relevant diagnostic, prognostic, and outcome information... - Sympathetic activation in broadly defined generalized anxiety disorderWalton T Roth
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
J Psychiatr Res 42:205-12. 2008..We conclude that broader GAD criteria include a substantial number of chronically anxious and hyperaroused patients who do not fall within standard criteria. Such patients deserve attention by clinicians and researchers... - Breathing training for treating panic disorder. Useful intervention or impediment?Alicia E Meuret
University of Hamburg, Stanford University, and Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care System, USA
Behav Modif 27:731-54. 2003..More studies are needed that are designed to measure the efficacy of BT using an adequate rationale and methodology. Claims that BT should be rejected in favor of cognitive or other forms of intervention are premature... - High altitudes, anxiety, and panic attacks: is there a relationship?Walton T Roth
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA
Depress Anxiety 16:51-8. 2002..We suggest some improvements that could be made in the design of future studies, possible tests of some of the theoretical causal links, and possible treatment applications, such as systematic exposure of panic patients to high altitude...