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Neural and behavioral substrates of mood and mood regulationRichard J Davidson
Department of Psychology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
Biol Psychiatry 52:478-502. 2002..Training interdisciplinary clinical scientists who meaningfully draw upon both behavioral and neuroscientific literatures and methods is critically required for the realization of these goals...
Cognitive vulnerabilities and depression versus other psychopathology symptoms and diagnoses in early adolescenceLauren B Alloy
Department of Psychology, Temple University, 1701 North 13th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19122, USA
J Clin Child Adolesc Psychol 41:539-60. 2012....- High Behavioral Approach System (BAS) sensitivity, reward responsiveness, and goal-striving predict first onset of bipolar spectrum disorders: a prospective behavioral high-risk designLauren B Alloy
Department of Psychology, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 19122, USA
J Abnorm Psychol 121:339-51. 2012..We discuss implications of the findings for the BAS model of bipolar disorder and early intervention efforts... - Progression along the bipolar spectrum: a longitudinal study of predictors of conversion from bipolar spectrum conditions to bipolar I and II disordersLauren B Alloy
Department of Psychology, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 19122, USA
J Abnorm Psychol 121:16-27. 2012..We discuss implications of the findings for the bipolar spectrum concept, the BAS model of bipolar disorder, and early intervention efforts... - A cognitive vulnerability-stress perspective on bipolar spectrum disorders in a normative adolescent brain, cognitive, and emotional development contextLauren B Alloy
Department of Psychology, Temple University, Philadelphia 19122, USA
Dev Psychopathol 18:1055-103. 2006.... - Behavioral approach system (BAS)-relevant cognitive styles and bipolar spectrum disorders: concurrent and prospective associationsLauren B Alloy
Department of Psychology, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 19122, USA
J Abnorm Psychol 118:459-71. 2009..These findings suggest that individuals with bipolar spectrum disorders may exhibit a unique profile of BAS-relevant cognitive styles that influence the course of their mood episodes... - Role of parenting and maltreatment histories in unipolar and bipolar mood disorders: mediation by cognitive vulnerability to depressionLauren B Alloy
Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19122, USA
Clin Child Fam Psychol Rev 9:23-64. 2006..We conclude with an assessment of the state of the parenting and maltreatment literatures in unipolar and bipolar disorder with regard to our guiding questions... - Bipolar spectrum-substance use co-occurrence: Behavioral approach system (BAS) sensitivity and impulsiveness as shared personality vulnerabilitiesLauren B Alloy
Department of Psychology, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 19122, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 97:549-65. 2009..High BAS sensitivity and impulsiveness may represent shared personality vulnerabilities for both disorders and may partially account for their co-occurrence... - Prospective incidence of first onsets and recurrences of depression in individuals at high and low cognitive risk for depressionLauren B Alloy
Department of Psychology, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 19122, USA
J Abnorm Psychol 115:145-56. 2006..The risk groups did not differ in incidence of anxiety disorders not comorbid with depression or other disorders, but HR participants were more likely to have an onset of anxiety comorbid with depression... - The psychosocial context of bipolar disorder: environmental, cognitive, and developmental risk factorsLauren B Alloy
Department of Psychology, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 19122, USA
Clin Psychol Rev 25:1043-75. 2005..Finally, we review studies of parenting and maltreatment histories in bipolar disorders. We conclude with an assessment of the state of the psychosocial risk factors literature in bipolar disorder with regard to our guiding questions... 
Behavioral Approach System and Behavioral Inhibition System sensitivities and bipolar spectrum disorders: prospective prediction of bipolar mood episodesLauren B Alloy
Psychology Department, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 19122, USA
Bipolar Disord 10:310-22. 2008..We tested whether BAS and BIS sensitivities prospectively predicted the time to new onsets of major depressive and hypomanic and manic episodes in bipolar spectrum individuals...- A roadmap to rumination: a review of the definition, assessment, and conceptualization of this multifaceted constructJeannette M Smith
Temple University, Psychology Department, Philadelphia, PA 19122, USA
Clin Psychol Rev 29:116-28. 2009..Finally, future directions for the study of ruminative phenomena are presented. It is hoped that this article will be a useful guide to those interested in studying the multi-faceted construct of rumination... - Stress generation in depression: A systematic review of the empirical literature and recommendations for future studyRichard T Liu
Department of Psychology, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 19122, United States
Clin Psychol Rev 30:582-93. 2010..In addition to highlighting these findings, methodological limitations and conceptual gaps in the literature are discussed with the view of informing future research in this area... - Generation of life events in bipolar spectrum disorders: a re-examination and extension of the stress generation theoryRachel E Bender
Department of Psychology, Temple University, 1701 N 13th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19122, USA
J Clin Psychol 66:907-26. 2010..Results suggest that the stress generation theory of unipolar depression can be extended to BSD and that the type of generated events may be polarity-specific... - Life stress and kindling in bipolar disorder: review of the evidence and integration with emerging biopsychosocial theoriesRachel E Bender
Department of Psychology, Temple University, 1701 N 13th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19122, USA
Clin Psychol Rev 31:383-98. 2011..Finally, we present therapeutic implications and suggestions for future research... - Emotional maltreatment and depression: prospective prediction of depressive episodesRichard T Liu
Department of Psychology, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19122, USA
Depress Anxiety 26:174-81. 2009..It also assessed whether current emotional maltreatment from peers and from authority figures separately predicted the occurrence of depressive episodes... - Lifestyle regularity and cyclothymic symptomatologyGail H C Shen
Psychology Department, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 19122, USA
J Clin Psychol 64:482-500. 2008.... - The role of cluster B and C personality disturbance in the course of depression: a prospective studyBrian M Iacoviello
Department of Psychology, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 19122, USA
J Pers Disord 21:371-83. 2007..The findings are discussed in terms of the possible mechanisms underlying the effects of clusters B and C, as well as implications for future research... - Predictors of attributional style change in childrenBrandon E Gibb
Department of Psychology, Binghamton University SUNY, Binghamton, New York 13902 6000, USA
J Abnorm Child Psychol 34:425-39. 2006..Contrary to the hypotheses, however, neither parent-reported levels of overall negative life events nor parents' attributions for their children's events predicted changes in children's attributional styles... - The course of depression in individuals at high and low cognitive risk for depression: a prospective studyBrian M Iacoviello
Department of Psychology, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 19122, United States
J Affect Disord 93:61-9. 2006..This study examined whether cognitive risk for depression onset also predicts the course of depression in a prospective design... - The relation of neediness and Axis II pathologyAlex Cogswell
Department of Psychology, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 19122, USA
J Pers Disord 20:16-21. 2006..Implications for the assessment of interpersonal dependency and issues in need of further clarification are highlighted... - A prospective test of the hopelessness theory of depression in childrenBrandon E Gibb
Department of Psychology, Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY 13902, USA
J Clin Child Adolesc Psychol 35:264-74. 2006..Contrary to our hypothesis, we also found support for the moderating role of attributional styles, although this was significant only among 5th graders... - Cognitive vulnerability to depression, rumination, hopelessness, and suicidal ideation: multiple pathways to self-injurious thinkingJeannette M Smith
Department of Psychology at Temple University, 6th Floor Weiss Hall, 1701 N 13th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19022, USA
Suicide Life Threat Behav 36:443-54. 2006..Further, rumination mediated the relationship between cognitive vulnerability and suicidal ideation... - The social zeitgeber theory, circadian rhythms, and mood disorders: review and evaluationLouisa D Grandin
Temple University, Weiss Hall, 6th Floor, 1701 N 13th St, Phila, PA 19122, USA
Clin Psychol Rev 26:679-94. 2006..We review these two theories in an attempt to understand the potential causes of circadian rhythm disruptions and affective episodes in individuals with unipolar and bipolar disorders. We also propose several areas of future research... - Increased rates of events that activate or deactivate the behavioral approach system, but not events related to goal attainment, in bipolar spectrum disordersSnezana Urosevic
Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, N218 Elliott Hall, 75 East River Road, Minneapolis, MN 55408, USA
J Abnorm Psychol 119:610-5. 2010..Finally, for bipolar spectrum individuals only, BAS-activating events predicted BAS-deactivating events' rates... - Social rhythm regularity and the onset of affective episodes in bipolar spectrum individualsGail H C Shen
Psychology Department, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 19122, USA
Bipolar Disord 10:520-9. 2008..This study examined whether regularity prospectively predicted time to onset of major depressive, hypomanic and manic episodes in a sample with bipolar spectrum disorders... - A goal-striving life event and the onset of hypomanic and depressive episodes and symptoms: perspective from the behavioral approach system (BAS) dysregulation theoryRobin Nusslock
Department of Psychology, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI 53706, USA
J Abnorm Psychol 116:105-15. 2007..Furthermore, self-reported BAS sensitivity moderated the presence of certain hypomanic symptoms during final exams... - Negative cognitive styles, dysfunctional attitudes, and the remitted depression paradigm: a search for the elusive cognitive vulnerability to depression factor among remitted depressivesGerald J Haffel
Department of Psychology, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI, USA
Emotion 5:343-8. 2005..Participants who had remitted from an episode of clinically significant depression had more negative cognitive styles, but not greater levels of dysfunctional attitudes, than did never depressed individuals... - Effect of bipolar disorder on left frontal cortical responses to goals differing in valence and task difficultyEddie Harmon-Jones
Department of Psychology, Texas A and M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
Biol Psychiatry 63:693-8. 2008.... - Depressive personality styles and bipolar spectrum disorders: prospective tests of the event congruency hypothesisErika L Francis-Raniere
Cambridge, MA, USA
Bipolar Disord 8:382-99. 2006..In contrast, a personality style concerned with attachment to others may buffer against depression when bipolar individuals face congruent negative events... - Negative cognitive style as a predictor of negative life events in depression-prone individuals: a test of the stress generation hypothesisScott M Safford
Department of Psychology, 204C Moreland Hall, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon 97331, United States
J Affect Disord 99:147-54. 2007..This study investigated the role of negative cognitive style in predicting the occurrence of negative life events... - Measuring cognitive vulnerability to depression: development and validation of the cognitive style questionnaireGerald J Haeffel
University of Notre Dame, Haggar Hall, Notre Dame, IN 46556, USA
Clin Psychol Rev 28:824-36. 2008..Findings to date using college samples, indicate that the CSQ is a reliable measure of cognitive vulnerability with a high degree of construct validity... - Cognitive vulnerability to depression: a taxometric analysisBrandon E Gibb
Department of Psychology, State University of New York at Binghamton, Binghamton, NY 13902 6000, US
J Abnorm Psychol 113:81-9. 2004..Despite this, the strength of the relationship between negative cognitive styles and depressive symptoms does appear to vary as a function of where along the cognitive style continuum one falls...
Research Grants
- Behavioral Approach System (BAS)and Bipolar Spectrum: Biopsychosocial IntegrationLAUREN ALLOY; Fiscal Year: 2007..Finally, these same factors will be examined to predict general worsening of course and progression to Bi II and Bi I status among the Bi Ss. ..
- BAS and Bipolar Disorder: Prospective Biobehavioral High Risk DesignLAUREN ALLOY; Fiscal Year: 2007..Finally, the project will contribute to development of BAS-targeted interventions for treatment and prevention of BD. ..
- Depression Surge in Adolescence & Gender Differences: Biocognitive MechanismsLAUREN ALLOY; Fiscal Year: 2009..e., high cognitive and/or genetic risk) of interventions that could be tailored appropriately to address gender and ethnic differences. ..
- BAS and Bipolar Disorder: Prospective Biobehavioral High Risk DesignLAUREN ALLOY; Fiscal Year: 2009..Finally, the project will contribute to development of BAS-targeted interventions for treatment and prevention of BD. ..
- Depression Surge in Adolescence & Gender Differences: Biocognitive MechanismsLAUREN BERSH contact ALLOY; Fiscal Year: 2010..e., high cognitive and/or genetic risk) of interventions that could be tailored appropriately to address gender and ethnic differences. ..
- BAS and Bipolar Disorder: Prospective Biobehavioral High Risk DesignLAUREN BERSH ALLOY; Fiscal Year: 2010..Finally, the project will contribute to development of BAS-targeted interventions for treatment and prevention of BD. ..
- NEGATIVE COGNITION DEPRESSION: ETIOLOGY AND COURSELAUREN ALLOY; Fiscal Year: 1993....
- NEGATIVE COGNITION DEPRESSION: ETIOLOGY AND COURSELAUREN ALLOY; Fiscal Year: 2003..abstract_text> ..
- Depression Surge in Adolescence & Gender Differences: Biocognitive MechanismsLAUREN BERSH contact ALLOY; Fiscal Year: 2010..e., high cognitive and/or genetic risk) of interventions that could be tailored appropriately to address gender and ethnic differences. ..