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Cardiac Vagal Tone, defensiveness, and motivational styleHallam L Movius
Department of Psychology, Cognitive Science and Neuroscience, University of Arizona, P.O. Box 210068, Tucson, AZ 85721-0068, USA
Biol Psychol 68:147-62. 2005..Poorer modulation for vagal tone was associated with greater social anxiety, while lower vagal tone across recording periods was associated with greater defensiveness and lower behavioral activation sensitivity...
The many metrics of cardiac chronotropy: a pragmatic primer and a brief comparison of metricsJohn J B Allen
Department of Psychology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721 0068, USA
Biol Psychol 74:243-62. 2007..Although generally highly correlated, the various metrics responded differently under challenge...
Social stress reactivity alters reward and punishment learningJames F Cavanagh
Department of Psychology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA
Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci 6:311-20. 2011....
Resting frontal EEG asymmetry as an endophenotype for depression risk: sex-specific patterns of frontal brain asymmetryJennifer L Stewart
Department of Psychology, University of rizona, 1503 East University Avenue, Room 312, Tucson, AZ 85721 0068, USA
J Abnorm Psychol 119:502-12. 2010..In contrast, results for average and linked mastoid references were less consistent but demonstrated a link between less left frontal activity and current depression severity in women...
The role of devaluing and discounting in performance monitoring: a neurophysiological study of minorities under threatChad E Forbes
University of Arizona, Department of Psychology, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA
Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci 3:253-61. 2008....
Sex differences in cardiac vagal control in a depressed sample: implications for differential cardiovascular mortalityAndrea S Chambers
University of Arizona, Cognitive Science, and Neuroscience, 1503 E University Blvd, Tucson, AZ 85721 0068, United States
Biol Psychol 75:32-6. 2007..The results suggest greater CVC in depressed women might confer cardioprotective functions, which may partially explain the sex difference in mortality rates in the depressed population...
Prelude to and resolution of an error: EEG phase synchrony reveals cognitive control dynamics during action monitoringJames F Cavanagh
Department of Psychology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721, USA
J Neurosci 29:98-105. 2009..Oscillatory dynamics in the theta band may in part underlie a mechanism of communication between networks involved in action monitoring and cognitive control...
Altered cingulate sub-region activation accounts for task-related dissociation in ERN amplitude as a function of obsessive-compulsive symptomsJames F Cavanagh
University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA
Neuropsychologia 48:2098-109. 2010..These novel findings link both tonic and phasic activities in the ACC to action monitoring alterations, including dissociation in performance deficits, in OC symptomatic participants...
Neurophysiological evidence for the influence of past experience on figure-ground perceptionLogan T Trujillo
Department of Psychology, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA
J Vis 10:5.1-21. 2010..These results provide the first neurophysiological evidence for an influence of past experience during the earliest stages of shape assignment...
The oft-neglected role of parietal EEG asymmetry and risk for major depressive disorderJennifer L Stewart
Psychology Department, University of Arizona, Tuscon, Arizona 85721 0068, USA
Psychophysiology 48:82-95. 2011..Findings suggest that sex differences and arousal should be examined in studies of depression and regional brain activity...
Frontal EEG asymmetry during emotional challenge differentiates individuals with and without lifetime major depressive disorderJennifer L Stewart
Department of Psychology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721 0068, United States
J Affect Disord 129:167-74. 2011..Examination of frontal asymmetry during emotion task manipulations could provide an assessment of the function of systems relevant for MDD, and test the limits of frontal EEG asymmetry as a marker of risk for depression...
Limitations to the detection of deception: true and false recollections are poorly distinguished using an event-related potential procedureJohn J B Allen
Department of Psychology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721 0068, USA
Soc Neurosci 4:473-90. 2009..Results suggested that under certain conditions both true and false recollections can produce a pattern of brain activity indicative of recognition...
Alteration of frontal EEG asymmetry during tryptophan depletion predicts future depressionJohn J B Allen
Department of Psychology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721 0068, United States
J Affect Disord 115:189-95. 2009..Better prediction might result by assessing a putative endophenotype for depressive risk, frontal electroencephalographic (EEG) asymmetry, in the context of TD...
Multiple aspects of the stress response under social evaluative threat: an electrophysiological investigationJames F Cavanagh
Department of Psychology, University of Arizona, 1503 University Avenue, Tucson, AZ, USA
Psychoneuroendocrinology 33:41-53. 2008..High state affect related to a larger Pe amplitude. Results are interpreted as consequences of different motivational and affective reactivities under social evaluative threat...
Morningness-eveningness and depression: preliminary evidence for the role of the behavioral activation system and positive affectBrant P Hasler
Department of Psychology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA
Psychiatry Res 176:166-73. 2010..A variety of alternative path models all provided a weaker fit to the data. Thus, results were consistent with the BAS and PA mediating the effects of morningness-eveningness on depression...
The role of psychophysiology in forensic assessments: deception detection, ERPs, and virtual reality mock crime scenariosRalf Mertens
Department of Psychology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721 0068, USA
Psychophysiology 45:286-98. 2008..Results suggested that guilty verdicts from ERP-based deception detection approaches are likely to be accurate, but that innocent (or indeterminate) verdicts yield no useful interpretation in an applied setting...
The impact of depression on social economic decision makingKatia M Harlé
Department of Psychology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA
J Abnorm Psychol 119:440-6. 2010..This suggests distinct biasing processes in depression, which may be related to higher reliance on regulating negative emotion...
Polymorphisms of the HTR1a allele are linked to frontal brain electrical asymmetryAndrew W Bismark
University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721 0068, United States
Biol Psychol 83:153-8. 2010..In conclusion, variation in HTR1a can influence trait level brain activity, which may ultimately be indicative of risk for psychopathology...
Frontal theta links prediction errors to behavioral adaptation in reinforcement learningJames F Cavanagh
Department of Psychology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA
Neuroimage 49:3198-209. 2010....
A better estimate of the internal consistency reliability of frontal EEG asymmetry scoresDavid N Towers
Department of Psychology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA
Psychophysiology 46:132-42. 2009..Estimates at all scalp sites and reference schemes approached .90 with as few as 100 epochs, suggesting the internal consistency of frontal asymmetry is greater than that previously reported...
Frontal EEG asymmetry and the behavioral activation and inhibition systemsJames A Coan
Department of Psychology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721 0068, USA
Psychophysiology 40:106-14. 2003....
Issues and assumptions on the road from raw signals to metrics of frontal EEG asymmetry in emotionJohn J B Allen
Department of Psychology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721 0068, USA
Biol Psychol 67:183-218. 2004....
Bridging the gap in complementary and alternative medicine research: manualization as a means of promoting standardization and flexibility of treatment in clinical trials of acupunctureRosa N Schnyer
Department of Psychology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA
J Altern Complement Med 8:623-34. 2002....
Vagal tone as an indicator of treatment response in major depressionAndrea S Chambers
Psychophysiology 39:861-4. 2002..Future work manipulating vagal tone might prove informative in teasing apart the causal role of vagal tone and depression...
The stability of resting frontal electroencephalographic asymmetry in depressionJohn J B Allen
Department of Psychology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721 0068, USA
Psychophysiology 41:269-80. 2004....
The role of psychophysiology in clinical assessment: ERPs in the evaluation of memoryJohn J B Allen
Department of Psychology, University of Arizona, Tucson 85721 0068, USA
Psychophysiology 39:261-80. 2002..To facilitate the development of other psychophysiological assessment tools, psychophysiological researchers are encouraged to report the sensitivity and specificity of their measures where possible...
Should it matter when we record? Time of year and time of day as factors influencing frontal EEG asymmetryJamie R Velo
University of Arizona, Department of Psychology, PO Box 210068, Tucson, AZ 85721 0068, United States
Biol Psychol 91:283-91. 2012....
Cardiac vagal control as a prospective predictor of anxiety in women diagnosed with breast cancerAnya V Kogan
Department of Psychology, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721 0068, USA
Biol Psychol 90:105-11. 2012..These results are consistent with the hypothesis that CVC facilitates the modulation of anxiety in women coping with significant stressors of breast cancer diagnosis and treatment...
Not devoid of forensic potential, butJohn J B Allen
University of Arizona, USA
Am J Bioeth 8:27-8; discussion W1-4. 2008
Women and major depressive disorder: clinical perspectives on causal pathwaysEynav Elgavish Accortt
Department of Psychology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721 0068, USA
J Womens Health (Larchmt) 17:1583-90. 2008....
Decomposing depression: on the prospective and reciprocal dynamics of mood and sleep disturbancesDavid A Sbarra
Department of Psychology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721 0068, USA
J Abnorm Psychol 118:171-82. 2009..The results have implications for better understanding the complexity and reciprocity of sleep-mood associations, as well as the dynamic, time-based predictors of depressive treatment response...
Varieties of emotional experience during voluntary emotional facial expressionsJames A Coan
Department of Psychology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721-0068, USA
Ann N Y Acad Sci 1000:375-9. 2003
Autonomic and emotion regulation in bereavement and depressionJohn J B Allen
Department of Psychology, Building 68, University of Arizona, Tucson 85721, USA
J Psychosom Res 52:183-5. 2002..quot; These physiological differences have potential implications for both the mental and physical health of the bereaved...
Theta EEG dynamics of the error-related negativityLogan T Trujillo
Department of Psychology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721 0068, USA
Clin Neurophysiol 118:645-68. 2007....
Frontal EEG asymmetry as a moderator and mediator of emotionJames A Coan
University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721 0068, USA
Biol Psychol 67:7-49. 2004..The present report reviews the frontal EEG asymmetry literature from the framework of moderators and mediators, and overviews data analytic strategies that would support claims of moderation and mediation...
The effects of experimentally induced stress on false recognitionJessica D Payne
University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA
Memory 10:1-6. 2002..This finding indicates that stress, possibly through its impact on the hippocampus and prefrontal cortex, can potentiate false memories...
The role of outcome expectations in the generation of the feedback-related negativityAndrew W Bismark
Department of Psychology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721 0068, USA
Psychophysiology 50:125-33. 2013..These results provide empirical support for an untested but central tenet of the reinforcement learning account of the genesis of the FRN...
EEG phase synchrony differences across visual perception conditions may depend on recording and analysis methodsLogan T Trujillo
Department of Psychology, University of Arizona, P O Box 210068, Tucson, AZ 85721 0068, USA
Clin Neurophysiol 116:172-89. 2005....
Theta lingua franca: a common mid-frontal substrate for action monitoring processesJames F Cavanagh
Department of Cognitive, Linguistic and Psychological Sciences, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island 02906, USA
Psychophysiology 49:220-38. 2012..The findings support the hypothesis that generic and reactive medial prefrontal cortex processes are parsimoniously reflected by theta band activities...
Deconstructing the "resting" state: exploring the temporal dynamics of frontal alpha asymmetry as an endophenotype for depressionJohn J B Allen
Department of Psychology, University of Arizona Tucson, AZ, USA
Front Hum Neurosci 4:232. 2010..This approach opens new possibilities for investigating rapid cortical dynamics during resting-state EEG...
Frontal EEG asymmetry and premenstrual dysphoric symptomatologyEynav Elgavish Accortt
Department of Psychology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721-0068, USA
J Abnorm Psychol 115:179-84. 2006..These results are consistent with a diathesis-stress model for premenstrual dysphoric symptomatology...
Acupuncture for depression: a randomized controlled trialJohn J B Allen
Department of Psychology, University of Arizona, Tucson 85721 0068, USA
J Clin Psychiatry 67:1665-73. 2006..To assess the efficacy of acupuncture as an intervention for major depressive disorder (MDD)...
Interidentity memory transfer in dissociative identity disorderLAUREN L KONG
Department of Psychology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721 0068, USA
J Abnorm Psychol 117:686-92. 2008..These findings demonstrate that subjective reports of interidentity amnesia are not necessarily corroborated by objective tests of explicit memory transfer...
Emotional disclosure for whom? A study of vagal tone in bereavementMary Frances O'Connor
Department of Psychology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA
Biol Psychol 68:135-46. 2005..Future research should investigate whether vagal tone moderates the impact of written disclosure for non-bereaved individuals...
Alternative treatments for depression: empirical support and relevance to womenRachel Manber
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, Calif 94305, USA
J Clin Psychiatry 63:628-40. 2002..John's wort, bright light, and sleep deprivation. Issues related to women across the life span, including pregnancy and lactation, are highlighted...
Frontal EEG asymmetry, emotion, and psychopathology: the first, and the next 25 yearsJohn J B Allen
Biol Psychol 67:1-5. 2004
Cardiac vagal control in the severity and course of depression: the importance of symptomatic heterogeneityJonathan Rottenberg
Mood and Emotion Laboratory, Department of Psychology, University of South Florida, PCD 4118G, 4202 E Fowler Avenue, Tampa, FL 33620 7200, United States
J Affect Disord 103:173-9. 2007..One possible explanation for mixed findings is that CVC abnormalities in MDD are related more closely to specific depression symptoms than to the syndrome as a whole...
A capability model of individual differences in frontal EEG asymmetryJames A Coan
University of Virginia, Department of Psychology 102, Gilmer Hall, P O Box 400400, Charlottesville, VA 22904 4400, USA
Biol Psychol 72:198-207. 2006..Logical as well as empirical arguments supportive of this conclusion are presented...
Cardiac vagal control, emotion, psychopathology, and healthAndrea S Chambers
Biol Psychol 74:113-5. 2007
Acupuncture: a promising treatment for depression during pregnancyRachel Manber
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University 401, Quarry Rd, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
J Affect Disord 83:89-95. 2004..Few medically acceptable treatments for depression during pregnancy are available. The aim of this randomized controlled pilot study was to determine whether acupuncture holds promise as a treatment for depression during pregnancy...
Patients' perception of their depressive illnessRachel Manber
Stanford University School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, 401 Quarry Road, Suite 3301, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
J Psychiatr Res 37:335-43. 2003..The subscales have adequate convergent/discriminant validity and are clinically relevant to aspects of treatment provision...
