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Social phobia and the recall of autobiographical memoriesAmy Wenzel
Department of Psychology, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, North Dakota 58202 8380, USA
Depress Anxiety 15:186-9. 2002..It is suggested that memory biases toward threat are not a prominent part of cognitive symptoms that characterize individuals with social phobia...
Prevalence of generalized anxiety at eight weeks postpartumA Wenzel
Department of Psychology, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks 58202 8380, USA
Arch Womens Ment Health 6:43-9. 2003..This study investigated the prevalence and nature of generalized anxiety symptoms in women who were eight weeks postpartum...
Thought suppression in spider-fearful and nonfearful individualsAmy Wenzel
Department of Psychology, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks 58202 8380, USA
J Gen Psychol 130:191-205. 2003..The authors propose that the priming of feared stimuli makes suppression of fear-related thoughts particularly difficult for fearful individuals, perhaps by activating a state of heightened arousal...
Autobiographical memories of anxiety-related experiencesAmy Wenzel
Department of Psychology, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND 58202 8380, USA
Behav Res Ther 42:329-41. 2004..These findings can explain partially why individuals with some, but not all, anxiety disorders experience enhanced memory for threatening material...
Anxiety symptoms and disorders at eight weeks postpartumAmy Wenzel
Department of Psychology, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND 58202 8380, USA
J Anxiety Disord 19:295-311. 2005..These results suggest that postpartum anxiety disorders are more common than postpartum depression and worthy of systematic study...
Autobiographical memory in angry and anxious individualsAmy Wenzel
Department of Psychology, University of North Dakota, USA
Behav Res Ther 43:1099-109. 2005..These results indicate that memory biases are not part of the cognitive sequelae associated with anger and anxiety, although aspects of the appraisal of these personal memories are distorted...
Memory and interpretation of visual representations of threat in socially anxious and nonanxious individualsAmy Wenzel
Department of Psychology, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND 58202 8380, USA
Behav Res Ther 43:1029-44. 2005....
Differentiating between memory and interpretation biases in socially anxious and nonanxious individualsJennifer R Brendle
Department of Psychology, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND 58202 8380, USA
Behav Res Ther 42:155-71. 2004..It is concluded that socially anxious individuals are characterized by accurate memory of threatening, factual material, but that they impose a biased interpretation upon that material, especially after some time has passed...
Interpretation biases in angry and anxious individualsAmy Wenzel
Department of Psychology, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND 58202 8380, USA
Behav Res Ther 43:1045-54. 2005..Thus, both angry and anxious participants demonstrated a negative interpretation bias, although the bias was more pervasive in angry participants...
Memory bias against threat in social phobiaAmy Wenzel
Department of Psychology, University of North Dakota, PO Box 8380, Grand Forks, ND 58202-8380, USA
Br J Clin Psychol 41:73-9. 2002..CONCLUSION: Consistent with the vigilance-avoidance theory, it is suggested that social phobia is an anxiety disorder characterized by the avoidance of elaborate processing of threatening material...
Communication and social skills in socially anxious and nonanxious individuals in the context of romantic relationshipsAmy Wenzel
Department of Psychology, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND 58202 8380, USA
Behav Res Ther 43:505-19. 2005..The results suggest that social anxiety is associated with deficits in relationship maintenance behavior and call for the completion of a larger study examining the interpersonal consequences of social anxiety...
Autobiographical memories prompted by automatic thoughts in panic disorder and social phobiaAmy Wenzel
University of Pennsylvania, Nova Southeastern University, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Cogn Behav Ther 35:129-37. 2006..Results indicate that panic and social phobic participants were characterized by general threat-relevant autobiographical memory biases...
Differentiating cognitive content between depressed and anxious outpatientsMarjan Ghahramanlou-Holloway
Department of Medical and Clinical Psychology, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD 20814 4799, USA
Cogn Behav Ther 36:170-8. 2007..These findings suggest that depressed and anxious patients differ in their cognitive expectancies about future life events in terms of their own anticipated emotional reactions...
Depth of processing and recall of threat material in fearful and nonfearful individualsAmy Wenzel
Psychopathology Research Unit, Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Anxiety Stress Coping 20:223-37. 2007....
A quantitative estimate of schema abnormality in socially anxious and non-anxious individualsAmy Wenzel
Psychopathology Research Unit, Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia 19104, USA
Cogn Behav Ther 36:220-9. 2007..These results provide empirical support for the theoretical notion that threat-relevant self-schemas of anxious individuals are characterized by some degree of abnormality...
Psychotherapy for postpartum depression: a preliminary reportRoseanne Clark
University of Wisconsin Medical School, Department of Psychiatry, Madison, WI 53719, USA
Am J Orthopsychiatry 73:441-54. 2003..Clinical implications regarding the importance of early intervention for women experiencing major depression in the postpartum period and their families are discussed...
Dysfunctional beliefs in panic disorder: The Panic Belief InventoryAmy Wenzel
Psychopathology Research Unit, Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania, 3535 Market St, Room 2032, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Behav Res Ther 44:819-33. 2006..These results provide preliminary evidence that the PBI has adequate psychometric characteristics, is useful to assess change in dysfunctional beliefs during treatment, and has the potential to advance cognitive theories of panic...
Are there any gender differences in frequency of self-reported somatic symptoms of depression?Amy Wenzel
Psychopathology Research Unit, Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania, 3535 Market St, Room 2029, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
J Affect Disord 89:177-81. 2005..The purpose of this study was to evaluate whether self-reported somatic symptoms of depression, as measured by the Beck Depression Inventory-II (BDI-II), are more frequent in women than in men with major depressive disorder...
