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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...
Psychophysiology of neural, cognitive and affective integration: fMRI and autonomic indicantsHugo D Critchley
Brighton and Sussex Medical School, Falmer Campus, Brighton, UK
Int J Psychophysiol 73:88-94. 2009....
Out-of-body experience, heautoscopy, and autoscopic hallucination of neurological origin Implications for neurocognitive mechanisms of corporeal awareness and self-consciousnessOlaf Blanke
Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience, Brain Mind Institute, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne Swiss Federal Institute of Technology EPFL, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
Brain Res Brain Res Rev 50:184-99. 2005....
Habituation of the orienting reflex and the development of Preliminary Process TheoryRobert J Barry
Brain and Behaviour Research Institute and School of Psychology, University of Wollongong, Northfields Avenue, Wollongong 2522, Australia
Neurobiol Learn Mem 92:235-42. 2009..The emphasis in the current presentation is on the use of the defining criteria of the habituation phenomenon, and Groves and Thompson's Dual-process Theory, in the development of PPT...
Error-related psychophysiology and negative affectGreg Hajcak
Department of Psychology, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716, USA
Brain Cogn 56:189-97. 2004..Results indicate that high NA was associated with significantly greater ERN and error-related SCR, and smaller Pe. These results are discussed in terms of anterior cingulate cortex function, psychopathology, and response monitoring...
Modeling regional and psychophysiologic interactions in fMRI: the importance of hemodynamic deconvolutionDarren R Gitelman
The Northwestern Cognitive Brain Mapping Group, Cognitive Neurology and Alzheimer s Disease Center, Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL 60611, USA
Neuroimage 19:200-7. 2003..In this article, this assumption is revisited using estimates of underlying neuronal activity. These estimates use a parametric empirical Bayes formulation for hemodynamic deconvolution...
SPR Award, 2004. For distinguished contributions to psychophysiology: Robert M. SternNiels Birbaumer
Institute of Medical Psychology and Behavioral Neurobiology, , , Germany
Psychophysiology 44:1. 2007
Psychophysiological and vocal measures in the detection of guilty knowledgeMatthias Gamer
Department of Psychology, Interdisciplinary Research Group Forensic Psychophysiology, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Staudingerweg 9, D 55099 Mainz, Germany
Int J Psychophysiol 60:76-87. 2006..In contrast to these results, the vocal measures provided by the computerized voice stress analysis system TrusterPro were shown to be invalid for the detection of guilty knowledge...
Promise versus reality in relation to the unitary orienting reflex: a case study examining the role of theory in psychophysiologyRobert J Barry
Brain and Behaviour Research Institute and Department of Psychology, University of Wollongong, Wollongong NSW 2522, Australia
Int J Psychophysiol 62:353-66. 2006..These propositions are explored here in the context of psychophysiology, concentrating on examples in relation to the Orienting Reflex (OR)...
The role of theory in the psychophysiology of personality: from Ivan Pavlov to Jeffrey GrayPhilip J Corr
Department of Psychology, University of Wales Swansea, Singleton Park, Swansea SA2 8PP, UK
Int J Psychophysiol 62:367-76. 2006..of RST in order to highlight some of the central problems - as well as some tentative solutions - in the psychophysiology of personality...
Brain activation during compassion meditation: a case studyMaria Engström
Center for Medical Image Science and Visualization, Linkoping University, Linkoping, Sweden
J Altern Complement Med 16:597-9. 2010..During meditation B.L. uses a technique to generate a feeling of love and compassion while reciting a mantra. The aim of the present study was to investigate the neural correlates of compassion meditation in 1 experienced meditator...
Attention and selection in the growing child: views derived from developmental psychophysiologyK R Ridderinkhof
Department of Developmental Psychology, University of Amsterdam, Roetersstraat 15, 1018 WB Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Biol Psychol 54:55-106. 2000....
The psychophysiology of social anxiety: emotional modulation of the startle reflex during socially-relevant and -irrelevant picturesDaniel F Gros
Mental Health Service, Ralph H Johnson Veterans Administration Medical Center, 109 Bee Street, Charleston, SC 29401, United States
Int J Psychophysiol 73:207-11. 2009..These findings are interpreted within the context of the broader literature suggesting that the specificity of fear in SA may influence psychophysiological reactivity...
The psychophysiology of medical communication. Linking two worlds of researchRobert L Hulsman
Department of Medical Psychology, Academic Medical Centre, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Patient Educ Couns 84:420-7. 2011..The question is how psychophysiological communication research should be modeled for unraveling in more detail the cognitive, emotional and interpersonal processes which underlie physician and patient behavior...
Brain-computer interface research at the University of South Florida Cognitive Psychophysiology Laboratory: the P300 SpellerEric W Sellers
Department of Psychology, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL 33620, USA
IEEE Trans Neural Syst Rehabil Eng 14:221-4. 2006..We summarize results from both paradigms and also discuss obstacles we have identified while working with the ALS population outside of the laboratory environment...
Cross-modal interactions in the experience of musical performances: physiological correlatesCatherine Chapados
Department of Psychology, McGill University, Montreal, Que, Canada H3A 1B1
Cognition 108:639-51. 2008....
What you see may not be what you get: a brief, nontechnical introduction to overfitting in regression-type modelsMichael A Babyak
Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, USA
Psychosom Med 66:411-21. 2004..Techniques that account and correct for complexity, including shrinkage and penalization, also are introduced...
Out-of-body experience and autoscopy of neurological originOlaf Blanke
Laboratory of Presurgical Epilepsy Evaluation, Programme of Functional Neurology and Neurosurgery, University Hospital, Geneva, Switzerland
Brain 127:243-58. 2004....
Multilevel models for repeated measures research designs in psychophysiology: an introduction to growth curve modelingSean D Kristjansson
Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, Missouri 63108, USA
Psychophysiology 44:728-36. 2007..The model is expanded to test and control for the effects of baseline levels of physiological activity on stimulus-specific responses. Practical, conceptual, and statistical advantages of growth curve modeling are discussed...
The somatic symptom paradox in DSM-IV anxiety disorders: suggestions for a clinical focus in psychophysiologyF H Wilhelm
Stanford University, School of Medicine and VAPA Health Care System 116F PAD, 3801 Miranda Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA
Biol Psychol 57:105-40. 2001....
Fear and anxiety: animal models and human cognitive psychophysiologyP J Lang
Center for the Study of Emotion and Attention, P O Box 100165, HSC, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32610, USA
J Affect Disord 61:137-59. 2000....
Altered resting psychophysiology and startle response in Croatian combat veterans with PTSDTanja Jovanovic
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA 30303, USA
Int J Psychophysiol 71:264-8. 2009..The studies of psychophysiology of PTSD to date have mostly measured reactivity...
Guidelines for mechanical lung function measurements in psychophysiologyThomas Ritz
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, and the VA Palo Alto Health Care System Palo Alto, California 94304, USA
Psychophysiology 39:546-67. 2002Studies in psychophysiology and behavioral medicine have uncovered associations among psychological processes, behavior, and lung function...
Affective neuroscience and psychophysiology: toward a synthesisRichard J Davidson
Laboratory for Affective Neuroscience, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
Psychophysiology 40:655-65. 2003..The implications of this body of work for a broader conception of psychophysiology and for training the next generation of psychophysiologists are considered in the conclusion.
Introducing genetic psychophysiologyEco J C de Geus
Biol Psychol 61:1-10. 2002Genetic psychophysiology examines interindividual variation in psychophysiological traits using behavioral genetic and molecular genetic techniques...
Psychophysiology of post-traumatic stress disorderScott P Orr
Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, MA 02129, USA
Psychiatr Clin North Am 25:271-93. 2002..to explore how stressful or threatening experimental contexts might produce phasic alterations in the psychophysiology of individuals with PTSD...
Autonomic activityP H Venables
Department of Psychology, University of York, Heslington, United Kingdom
Ann N Y Acad Sci 620:191-207. 1991..abstract truncated at 400 words)..
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..An alternative perspective on the psychophysiology of BII phobia and vasovagal fainting is offered by focusing on hypocapnia that leads to cerebral blood flow ..
Neural correlate of spatial presence in an arousing and noninteractive virtual reality: an EEG and psychophysiology studyThomas Baumgartner
Institute for Empirical Research in Economics and Neuroeconomics, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Cyberpsychol Behav 9:30-45. 2006Using electroencephalography (EEG), psychophysiology, and psychometric measures, this is the first study which investigated the neurophysiological underpinnings of spatial presence...
The dose-dependent effect of methylphenidate on performance, cognition and psychophysiologyNicholas J Cooper
The Brain Resource Company and the Brain Resource International Database, Ultimo, NSW 2007, Australia
J Integr Neurosci 4:123-44. 2005..To our knowledge, this is the first paper to use behavioral, arousal and electrophysiological measures in an integrative approach to study the effects of MPH on healthy adults...
Mixed-effects models in psychophysiologyE Bagiella
Division of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA
Psychophysiology 37:13-20. 2000The current methodological policy in Psychophysiology stipulates that repeated-measures designs be analyzed using either multivariate analysis of variance (ANOVA) or repeated-measures ANOVA with the Greenhouse-Geisser or Huynh-Feldt ..
Psychophysiological anticipation of positive outcomes promotes advantageous decision-making in normal older personsNatalie L Denburg
Department of Neurology, Division of Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Iowa Roy J and Lucille A Carver College of Medicine, Iowa 52242 1053, USA
Int J Psychophysiol 61:19-25. 2006....
Reactivity to imagery and nocturnal panic attacksJennie C I Tsao
NIMH Center for the Study of Emotion and Attention, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32610, USA
Depress Anxiety 18:205-13. 2003..The findings are discussed with respect to the role of fear of loss of vigilance for nocturnal panic...
[Mental state and electrodermal activity in depressed patients during acute suicidal period]Roland Straub
Psychiatrie I der Universität Ulm Zentrum für Psychiatrie Weissenau, Postfach 2044, 88190 Ravensburg
Psychiatr Prax 30:S183-6. 2003....
Children's physiological indices of empathy and their socioemotional adjustment: does caregivers' expressivity matter?Jeffrey Liew
Arizona State University, Department of Psychology, Tempe, AZ 85287 1104, USA
J Fam Psychol 17:584-97. 2003..Fewer findings were obtained for girls or for positive slides...
[Increased allergy risk in depressed inpatient women: what is the role of electrodermal and cognitive-emotional variables?]Adrienne Stauder
Institute of Behavioral Sciences, Semmelweis University, Budapest
Psychiatr Prax 30:S187-92. 2003..Significant highest electrodermal activity were measured in the depressed group (D, p = 0.026) and not as we would have expected in the comorbid group DA. The implications for diagnostic-therapeutic strategies are discussed...
Cardiac concomitants of feedback processingEveline A Crone
Department of Developmental Psychology, University of Amsterdam, Roetersstraat 15, 1018 WB, The Netherlands
Biol Psychol 64:143-56. 2003..The results were interpreted in support of the hypothesis assuming that heart rate slowing is elicited when performance-based expectations are violated...
Infant stress and parent responsiveness: regulation of physiology and behavior during still-face and reunionDavid W Haley
Department of Psychology, University of New Mexico, USA
Child Dev 74:1534-46. 2003..In addition, this procedure elicited a cortisol response (from .22 microg/dl to .31 microg/dl). Findings suggest important links between parent behavior and infant stress reactivity and regulation...
Intrusive and non-intrusive memories in a non-clinical sample: the effects of mood and affect on imagery vividnessMichael Bywaters
Department of Psychology, University of Sheffield, Western Bank, Sheffield S10 2TP, UK
Memory 12:467-78. 2004..IMs were more vivid than non-intrusive memories, a difference not due to either valence or arousal. We conclude that IMs are a general feature of human memory rather than just a symptom of certain clinical disorders...
The clinical relevance of psychophysiology: support for the psychobiology of empathy and psychodynamic processCarl Marci
Psychotherapy Research Program, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, 15 Parkman Street, WACC 812, Boston, MA 02114, USA
Am J Psychother 59:213-26. 2005..The case illustrates the clinical relevance of psychophysiology and its use as a potential bridge between psychotherapy research and the theory and practice of psychotherapy...
Sensitivity of primary phasic heart rate deceleration to stimulus repetition in an habituation procedure: influence of a subjective measure of activation/arousal on the evoked cardiac responseMarek Binder
Department of Psychophysiology, Jagiellonian University, Al Mickiewicza 3, 31 120 Cracow, Poland
Int J Psychophysiol 55:61-72. 2005..These results are interpreted within the framework of Preliminary Process Theory in terms of the different attentional patterns in subjects with high and low levels of Tense Arousal...
Cultural and temperamental variation in emotional responseJeanne L Tsai
Department of Psychology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
Emotion 6:484-97. 2006..Together, these findings suggest that the relative influence of cultural and temperamental factors on emotion varies by response component...
Perceptual and physiological responses to the visual complexity of fractal patternsR P Taylor
Physics Department, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403, USA
Nonlinear Dynamics Psychol Life Sci 9:89-114. 2005..We also present recent preliminary work based on skin conductance measurements that indicate that these mid-range fractals also affect the observer's physiological condition and discuss future directions based on these results...
The psychophysiological correlates of risk recognition among victims and non-victims of sexual assaultJose M Soler-Baillo
Department of Psychology, Temple University, Weiss Hall, Philadelphia, PA 19122, USA
Behav Res Ther 43:169-81. 2005..Overall, the results indicate that altered physiological responding to relevant threat cues may be related to individuals' ability to identify and react to threatening sexual situations...
Does anticipation of back pain predispose to back trouble?G Lorimer Moseley
Prince of Wales Medical Research Institute, Randwick, Sydney, Austalia
Brain 127:2339-47. 2004..This protective strategy is associated with compressive cost and is thought to predispose to spinal injury if maintained long term...
Preparation for speeded action as a psychophysiological conceptJ Richard Jennings
Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Psychol Bull 131:434-59. 2005..Concepts of the central regulation of action offer an integrative framework for understanding the psychophysiology of preparation...
Engaging the body and mind with the spirit of learning to promote critical thinkingPatricia Trapp
Beaver Dam Community Hospital, Beaver Dam, Wisconsin 53916, USA
J Contin Educ Nurs 36:73-6. 2005..These can be applied in a variety of different formats. Examples are provided for self-directed learning formats, which can be a versatile and cost-effective way to communicate continuing education to the learner...
The frontal lobes and theory of mind: developmental concepts from adult focal lesion researchDonald T Stuss
The Rotman Research Institute, Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care, 3560 Bathurst St, and the University of Toronto, Toronto, Ont, Canada M6A 2E1
Brain Cogn 55:69-83. 2004..The secondary objective is to use this structure to suggest hypotheses about the potential effect of frontal dysfunction at various developmental stages, and including both congenital and acquired brain injury...
Emotion and consciousness: ends of a continuumYuri I Alexandrov
Laboratory of Neural Bases of Mind, Institute of Psychology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Yaroslavskaya str, 13, 129366 Moscow, Russia
Brain Res Cogn Brain Res 25:387-405. 2005..These levels are created during development. Our theory is based on both theoretical and empirical research and provides a solid framework for experimental work...
Preparing computers for affective communication: a psychophysiological concept and preliminary resultsMin Cheol Whang
Department of Media Technology, Sangmyung University, Seoul, Korea
Hum Factors 45:623-34. 2003..We discuss how such a psychophysiological approach may be incorporated into a systemic model of a computer responsive to affective communication from the user...
An investigation of immersiveness in virtual reality exposure using physiological dataDong P Jang
Department of Biomedical Engineering, Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea
Stud Health Technol Inform 85:207-13. 2002..Significantly, heart rate variability analysis in virtual environments showed that it could be useful for assessing the emotional states of participants...
The perseverative cognition hypothesis: a review of worry, prolonged stress-related physiological activation, and healthJos F Brosschot
Division of Clinical and Health Psychology, Department of Psychology, Leiden University, P O Box 9555, 2300 RB Leiden, The Netherlands
J Psychosom Res 60:113-24. 2006..The findings yield preliminary support for our hypothesis, suggesting that perseverative cognition might act directly on somatic disease via enhance activation via the cardiovascular, immune, endocrine, and neurovisceral systems...
The effect of content and physical properties of affective pictures on emotional responsesJuan Pedro Sánchez-Navarro
Departamento de Anatomía Humana y Psicobiología, Facultad de Psicologia, Universidad de Murcia, Campus de Espinardo, 30100 Murcia, Spain
Span J Psychol 9:145-53. 2006..Importantly, effects of the size of the affective pictures on emotional responses were not found, indicating that the emotional content is more important than the formal properties of the stimuli in evoking the emotional response...
Exoneration reduces adult conflict's effects on preschoolers' cognitions, behavioral distress, and physiologyGabriel J Ybarra
Department of Psychology, University of North Florida, Jacksonville 32224, USA
J Genet Psychol 167:245-68. 2006..Nonaddressed children most often blamed themselves for the argument. Exonerating statements may protect children from attributional error and resultant physiological arousal during adult conflict...
Subjective and physiological responses to emotion-eliciting pictures in male schizophrenic patientsRoelie J Hempel
Department of Psychiatry, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Int J Psychophysiol 64:174-83. 2007..Thus, the schizophrenic patients showed similar relationships between subjective ratings and SCR, BR, and SBP, but a different relationship between subjective ratings and HR compared with the healthy controls...
Relationships between musical structure and psychophysiological measures of emotionPatrick Gomez
Institut Universtitaire Romand de Sante au Travail, Lausanne, Switzerland
Emotion 7:377-87. 2007..This finding corroborates the contention that rhythmic aspects are the major determinants of physiological responses to music...
Parent-child relationship, temperament, and physiological reactions to fear-inducing film clips: further evidence for differential susceptibilityRenske Gilissen
Centre for Child and Family Studies, Leiden University, 2300 RB Leiden, The Netherlands
J Exp Child Psychol 99:182-95. 2008..Our findings add to the growing literature showing that children high in negative emotion are more susceptible to positive as well as negative rearing influences for better and for worse...
Examining pain-related distress in relation to pain intensity and psychological distressNancy Wells
Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
Res Nurs Health 31:52-62. 2008..Thus, the purpose of this article is to examine the terms symptom distress, symptom intensity, and psychological distress using pain as the example symptom...
Physiological responses to social and cognitive challenges in 8-year olds with a history of prenatal cocaine exposureJulie A Kable
Department of Pediatrics, Emory University School of Medicine, 1256 Briarcliff Rd, Room 323, West, Atlanta, Georgia 30306 2636, USA
Dev Psychobiol 50:251-65. 2008..Altered arousal responses associated with prenatal cocaine exposure persisted into middle childhood but were different from those found in behaviorally disturbed children...
Consciousness, accessibility, and the mesh between psychology and neuroscienceNed Block
Department of Philosophy, New York University, New York, NY 10003, USA
Behav Brain Sci 30:481-99; discussion 499-548. 2007....
A real-time emotionality assessment (RTEA) system based on psycho-physiological evaluationSoon Cheol Chung
Department of Biomedical Engineering, Research Institute of Biomedical Engineering, College of Biomedical and Health Science, Konkuk University, Chungju, South Korea
Int J Neurosci 118:967-80. 2008..It can be utilized individually, or can be combined as a synthetic emotionality assessment system for comprehensive emotionality assessment...
[Neither Descartes nor Freud? current pain models in psychosomatic medicine]N Egloff
Kompetenzbereich für Psychosomatische Medizin Inselspital, Universitat Bern
Praxis (Bern 1994) 97:549-57. 2008..Current scientific knowledge calls for distinct pain concepts, which integrate neurobiological and neuropsychological aspects of pain processing...
Psychophysiological, behavioral, and cognitive indices of the emotional response: a factor-analytic studyJuan Pedro Sánchez-Navarro
Departamento de Anatomía Humana y Psicobiología, Facultad de Psicologia, Universidad de Murcia, Spain
Span J Psychol 11:16-25. 2008..Although some measurements, including heart rate change, did not behave as predicted, our results reinforce the two-dimension model of the emotion, and show that startle fits into the model...
Awareness of subtle emotional feelings: a comparison of long-term meditators and nonmeditatorsLisbeth Nielsen
Behavioral and Social Research Program, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
Emotion 6:392-405. 2006..These findings provide qualified support for the somatic marker hypothesis and suggest that meditation may influence how emotionally ambiguous information is processed, regulated, and represented in conscious awareness...
Spontaneous emotion regulation during evaluated speaking tasks: associations with negative affect, anxiety expression, memory, and physiological respondingBoris Egloff
Department of Psychology, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
Emotion 6:356-66. 2006..Taken together, spontaneous emotion regulation in active coping tasks has similar consequences as experimentally induced emotion regulation in passive tasks...
Psychophysiologic responses of invasive cardiologists in an academic catheterization laboratoryNicole Detling
Department of Exercise and Sport Science Program, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
Am Heart J 151:522-8. 2006..Less experienced invasive cardiologists had higher psychophysiologic measurements of stress during invasive procedures than did more experienced cardiologists...
Understanding consciousness: implications and consequencesMark W Mahowald
Minnesota Regional Sleep Disorders Center, Hennepin County Medical Center, Minneapolis, MN 55415, USA
Perspect Biol Med 46:297-304. 2003
Neuroscience of decision making and informed consent: an investigation in neuroethicsGeorg Northoff
Department of Psychiatry, Section for Neurophilosophy, University of Magdeburg, Leipziger Strasse 44, 39120 Magdeburg, Germany
J Med Ethics 32:70-3. 2006..It is concluded that current progress in the neurosciences could complement and change the way in which we approach ethical problems in neuropsychiatry...
Simulation of the geomagnetic field experienced by the International Space Station in its revolution around the Earth: effects on psychophysiological responses to affective picture viewingCristina Del Seppia
Institute of Clinical Physiology, National Council of Research CNR, Via Moruzzi 1, 56124 Pisa, Italy
Neurosci Lett 400:197-202. 2006..No effects were found for the other variables. These results suggest that an abnormal magnetic field that simulates the one encountered by ISS orbiting around the Earth may enhance autonomic response to emotional stimuli...
Psychophysiological and subjective indicators of aversive pavlovian conditioning in generalized social phobiaChristiane Hermann
Department of Neuropsychology at the University of Heidelberg, Central Institute of Mental Health, Mannheim, Germany
Biol Psychiatry 52:328-37. 2002..Furthermore, delayed extinction of the conditioned response seems to contribute to the etiology and maintenance of generalized social phobia...
Psychophysiological determinants and concomitants of deficient decision making in pathological gamblersAnna E Goudriaan
Academic Medical Center, Department of Psychiatry, University of Amsterdam and Amsterdam Institute for Addiction Research, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Drug Alcohol Depend 84:231-9. 2006....
Differential subjective and psychophysiological responses to socially and nonsocially generated emotional stimuliJennifer C Britton
Neuroscience Program, University of Michigan, USA
Emotion 6:150-5. 2006..Heart rate deceleration was more responsive to nonsocially generated emotions. Taken together, these findings suggest that sociality affects the physiological profile of responses to emotional valence...
Lower blood pressure correlates with poorer performance on visuospatial attention tasks in younger individualsWhitney Wharton
Department of Psychology, The George Washington University, 2125 G Street, Washington, DC 20005, United States
Biol Psychol 73:227-34. 2006..We discuss possible explanations for this positive relationship, such as structural neural mechanisms, and how they apply to the overall blood pressure-cognition relationship...
Cardiovascular response to Stroop: effect of verbal response and task difficultyYati N Boutcher
School of Medical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of New South Wales, Australia
Biol Psychol 73:235-41. 2006..This reactivity was attenuated during reading of monochrome words and was virtually abolished when performing the Stroop without verbally responding...
Reading the mind from eye gazeAndrew J Calder
MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge, UK
Neuropsychologia 40:1129-38. 2002..Additional subtraction contrasts largely confirmed these patterns. Our results demonstrate a considerable degree of overlap between the medial frontal areas involved in eye gaze processing and theory of mind tasks...
Ontogeny of odor discrimination: a method to assess novel odor discrimination in neonatal ratsM Fletcher
Department of Zoology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73019, USA
Physiol Behav 74:589-93. 2001..These results lay the foundation for future studies of precise mapping of the ontogeny of novel odor discrimination...
Suffering and the unconscious --"the harder problem"James D Duffy
University of Texas at MD Anderson, Baylor College of Medicine, University of Texas, Houston, TX 77030, USA
Am J Bioeth 8:29-30; discussion W1-3. 2008
Attentional functions in speech fluency disordersRagnhild Rekve Heitmann
Centre for Logopedics, Eikelund Resource Centre, Bergen, Norway
Logoped Phoniatr Vocol 29:119-27. 2004..However, the sample available within the study period was limited, and due to small samples care should be taken before making firm conclusions...
Observational, physiological, and self-report measures of children's anger: relations to reactive versus proactive aggressionJulie A Hubbard
Department of Psychology, University of Delaware, Newark 19716 2577, USA
Child Dev 73:1101-18. 2002..Reactive aggression, but not proactive aggression, was positively related to skin conductance reactivity and angry nonverbal behaviors, both at an aggregated level and in terms of rate of increase over the time span of the game...
Use of ambulatory skin conductance recording for monitoring psychophysiological arousal in the elderly staying in care facilitiesYasufumi Shiihara
School of Health Sciences, Gunma University School of Medicine, Maebashi, Japan
Psychiatry Clin Neurosci 56:285-6. 2002..In contrast, the SCC profile of the bedridden elderly were generally flattened with poor SCC responses that were evoked only by nursing procedures...
Cardiovascular reactivity in hypertensives: differential effect of expressing and inhibiting emotions during moments of interpersonal stressMarilda E Novaes Lipp
Pontificia Universidade Catolica de Campinas, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Span J Psychol 9:154-61. 2006..It is suggested that the difficulty in expressing emotions found in some hypertensive individuals may have the function of controlling or reducing blood pressure reactivity...
Measuring craving: an attempt to connect subjective craving with cue reactivityWendy Ooteman
Amsterdam Institute for Addiction Research, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Alcohol Clin Exp Res 30:57-69. 2006..It is hypothesized that this questionnaire will show higher concordance with measures of cue reactivity than existing self-report craving questionnaires...
Neuroscience and ethics: intersectionsAntonio Damasio
Brain and Creativity Institute, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0152, USA
Am J Bioeth 7:3-7. 2007
A prominent role for amygdaloid complexes in the Variability in Heart Rate (VHR) during Rapid Eye Movement (REM) sleep relative to wakefulnessMartin Desseilles
Cyclotron Research Centre, Liege University, Belgium
Neuroimage 32:1008-15. 2006..This suggests a functional reorganization of central cardiovascular regulation during REMS...
Musically induced arousal affects pain perception in females but not in males: a psychophysiological examinationRamona Kenntner-Mabiala
University of Wurzburg, Germany
Biol Psychol 75:19-23. 2007..Also, participants' arousal ratings, their respiratory rate and heart rate were accelerated by the fastest tempo. The modulation of pain perception by the tempo of music seems to be mediated by the listener's arousal...
Emotional information processing in patients with narcolepsy: a psychophysiologic investigationValter Tucci
Department of Psychology, University of Padua, Padua, Italy
Sleep 26:558-64. 2003..The drawback exhibited by these patients suggests reduced reactivity of the aversive motivational system responsible for negative or unpleasant emotions...
Reactive aggression in boys with disruptive behavior disorders: behavior, physiology, and affectDaniel A Waschbusch
Department of Psychology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada B3H 4J1
J Abnorm Child Psychol 30:641-56. 2002..In addition, boys with comorbid ADHD/ODD/CD held a grudge longer than other children. Results suggest that boys with comorbid ADHD/ODD/CD are especially reactive to provocation from their peers...
The relationship between exercise intensity and affective responses demystified: to crack the 40-year-old nut, replace the 40-year-old nutcracker!Panteleimon Ekkekakis
Department of Kinesiology, Iowa State University, 253 Barbara E Forker Building, Ames, IA 50011, USA
Ann Behav Med 35:136-49. 2008..However, progress in the investigation of this model has been limited, mainly due to inconsistent findings on the first link between exercise intensity and affective responses...
[A proposal for reforming psychologists' training in France and in the European Union]J P Bouchard
Centre international de sciences criminelles et pénales CISCP, 115, rue Saint Dominique, 75007 Paris, France
Encephale 35:18-24. 2009..Teaching of psychophysiology and neurosciences should be updated and harmonised by taking into account the great current and future stakes ..
On the pharmacotherapy of sleep bruxism: placebo-controlled polysomnographic and psychometric studies with clonazepamAlexander Saletu
Department of Dental Medicine, Medical University of Vienna, Währinger Strasse 25a, AT 1090 Vienna, Austria
Neuropsychobiology 51:214-25. 2005..Thus, the aim of the present study was to investigate the acute effects of clonazepam (Rivotril) as compared with placebo, utilizing polysomnography and psychometry...
Anxiety, signal anxiety, and unconscious anticipation: neuroscientific evidence for an unconscious signal function in humansP S Wong
Department of Psychology, New School for Social Research, Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Science, New York, NY 10003, USA
J Am Psychoanal Assoc 47:817-41. 1999..Signal anxiety is examined using information from cognitive psychology and learning theory, psychophysiology, behavioral neuroscience, and psychoanalytic theory...
Effects of stress on pain threshold and tolerance in children with recurrent abdominal painLynette M Dufton
Department of Psychology and Human Development, Vanderbilt University, Peabody 512, 230 Appleton Place, Nashville, TN 37203, USA
Pain 136:38-43. 2008..Stimulus dimensions of the cold pressor test and the associated patterns of cardiovascular response. Psychophysiology 1994;31:282-90; Gameiro et al...
Pentagastrin test for anxiety--psychophysiology and personalityDiana Radu
Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Section of Psychiatry, Karolinska Institutet, 171 76 Stockholm, Sweden
Psychopharmacology (Berl) 166:139-45. 2003..Our previous findings are in agreement with a relationship between C-peptide plasma levels (as a measure of insulin release) and sensitivity to psychotropic activation by CCK(B) receptor stimulation...
[The examination of men's wits by Juan Huarte de San Juan, and the dawn of the neurobiology of intelligence in the Spanish renaissance]A Martín-Araguz
Servicio de Neurologia, Hospital Central de la Defensa, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Rev Neurol 38:1176-85. 2004..Since then it has been reprinted at least 80 times and translated into seven languages, which makes it the most influential Spanish contribution to medicine ever published...
Behavioral medicine and health psychology in a changing worldJ J Conger
Department of Psychiatry, University of Colorado, School of Medicine, Denver 80262
Child Abuse Negl 11:443-53. 1987Despite long-established roots in experimental psychophysiology and psychosomatic medicine, behavioral medicine and health psychology have only recently emerged as recognized, highly visible disciplines within medicine and the behavioral ..
Respiratory psychophysiology and anxiety: cognitive intervention in the doxapram model of panicJ L Abelson
Department of Psychiatry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
Psychosom Med 58:302-13. 1996....
The clinical differential approach of Sante De Sanctis in Italian "scientific" psychologyGiovanni Pietro Lombardo
University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy
Physis Riv Int Stor Sci 43:443-57. 2006....
Psychophysiology and adaptive automationE A Byrne
Cognitive Science Laboratory, Catholic University of America, Washington, DC 20064, USA
Biol Psychol 42:249-68. 1996..b>Psychophysiology has two complementary roles in research on adaptive automation: first, to provide information about the ..
Declarative memory is critical for sustained advantageous complex decision-makingRupa Gupta
Department of Neurology, University of Iowa, United States
Neuropsychologia 47:1686-93. 2009..One study, in which the measurement of psychophysiology during the task necessitated a 10-s delay between card selections, found that six participants with amnesia ..
The impact of reinforcement contingencies on AD/HD: a review and theoretical appraisalMarjolein Luman
Department of Neuropsychology, PI Research, Rijksstraatweg 145, P O Box 366, 1115 ZG Duivendrecht, The Netherlands
Clin Psychol Rev 25:183-213. 2005..AD/HD and reinforcement contingencies are reviewed from vantage points: task performance, motivation, and psychophysiology. Results indicate that reinforcement contingencies have a positive impact on task performance and levels of ..
Biofeedback treatment for asthmaPaul M Lehrer
Department of Psychiatry, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, The University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA
Chest 126:352-61. 2004..We evaluated the effectiveness of heart rate variability (HRV) biofeedback as a complementary treatment for asthma...
Research Grants
- EMOTIONAL CONTROL OF SEDATIVE SELF-MEDICATION IN PTSDJOHN CASADA; Fiscal Year: 2003..Though he has completed training in basic neuroscience and has conducted psychophysiology research in PTSD, he has no training in substance abuse research...
- FETAL NEUROBEHAVIORAL DEVELOPMENT & POSTNATAL CONTINUITYJANET DI PIETRO; Fiscal Year: 2000..to investigate predictive relations from the fetus to the infant; and to elucidate the role of maternal psychophysiology on fetal and infant development...
- CRNS: Model of hippocampal-amygdala interaction: Implications for PTSDCatherine E Myers; Fiscal Year: 2010..from several disciplines - computational neuroscience, experimental neuropsychology, clinical psychology, psychophysiology, and animal models of human anxiety disorders -- and builds on the expertise of each...
- Utah Center for Exploring Mind-Body Interactions (UCEMB*Yoshio Nakamura; Fiscal Year: 2006..Methodology and Statistics; Technology-Based Assessment using functional brain imaging and multivariate psychophysiology; and Administrative Support...
- PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY OF IRRITABLE BOWEL SYNDROMEWilliam Whitehead; Fiscal Year: 2002....
- Psychophysiology of Irritable Bowel SynbdromeWilliam Whitehead; Fiscal Year: 2003..These studies will be done in collaboration with the University of Washington, Group Health Cooperative of Puget Sound, and the Mayo Clinic in Scottsdale, AZ. ..
- Psychophysiology of Irritable Bowel SynbdromeWilliam Whitehead; Fiscal Year: 2007..These studies will be done in collaboration with the University of Washington, Group Health Cooperative of Puget Sound, and the Mayo Clinic in Scottsdale, AZ. ..
- Dilution and Succussion in Homepathic Remedy Dose-Response PatternsIris Bell; Fiscal Year: 2007..R21 exploratory grant to NCCAM in response to PAR-03-153 is to extend the PI's previous human olfactory psychophysiology research and develop a quantitative electroencephalographic (qEEG) bioassay for registration of individually ..
- Psychophysiology of Irritable Bowel SynbdromeWilliam Whitehead; Fiscal Year: 2006..These studies will be done in collaboration with the University of Washington, Group Health Cooperative of Puget Sound, and the Mayo Clinic in Scottsdale, AZ. ..
- Context Effects in De Novo Fear Conditioning in HumansMichael Otto; Fiscal Year: 2006..This project represents the collaboration between basic scientists specializing in psychophysiology and animal learning (Scott Orr, Ph.D. and Mark Bouton, Ph.D...
- PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY OF IRRITABLE BOWEL SYNDROMEWilliam E Whitehead; Fiscal Year: 2010..Identifying these different phenotypes of IBS and the genetic markers associated with them may help to identify new targets for drug development and may help us to individualize treatment and thereby make it more successful. ..
- PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY OF IRRITABLE BOWEL SYNDROMEWilliam Whitehead; Fiscal Year: 2009..Identifying these different phenotypes of IBS and the genetic markers associated with them may help to identify new targets for drug development and may help us to individualize treatment and thereby make it more successful. ..
- PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY OF IRRITABLE BOWEL SYNDROMEWilliam Whitehead; Fiscal Year: 2009..Identifying these different phenotypes of IBS and the genetic markers associated with them may help to identify new targets for drug development and may help us to individualize treatment and thereby make it more successful. ..
- Physical Abuse and Child Aggression:Role of ANS ArousalElana Gordis; Fiscal Year: 2006..Training includes coursework and close mentoring with experts in research on child abuse, domestic violence, psychophysiology, aggression,, measurement design, and multi-variate data analysis...
- A Dynamic Contructivist Model of Placebo AnalgesiaYoshio Nakamura; Fiscal Year: 2006..Its key themes are non-pharmacological analgesia, consciousness, emotion, psychophysiology, somatic perception, individual differences, and time series analysis...
