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Violence Victimization Predicts Body Mass Index One Decade Later among an Urban Sample of African American Young Adults: Sex as a Moderator and Dehydroepiandrosterone as a Mediator

Shervin Assari, Cleopatra Howard Caldwell, James L. Abelson, Marc Zimmerman

Journal of Urban Health > 2019 > 96 > 4 > 632-643

Psychological stressors such as violence victimization are known contributors to obesity. However, moderators and mediators of this association have not been studied, although they might offer pathways for intervention or prevention. Using a sample of African American young adults, this study tested: (1) the moderating effect of sex on the effect of violence victimization on trajectories of body mass...

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Adaptive School-based Implementation of CBT (ASIC): clustered-SMART for building an optimized adaptive implementation intervention to improve uptake of mental health interventions in schools

Amy M. Kilbourne, Shawna N. Smith, Seo Youn Choi, Elizabeth Koschmann, more

Implementation Science > 2018 > 13 > 1 > 1-15

Background Depressive and anxiety disorders affect 20–30% of school-age youth, most of whom do not receive adequate services, contributing to poor developmental and academic outcomes. Evidence-based practices (EBPs) such as cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) can improve outcomes, but numerous barriers limit access among affected youth. Many youth try to access mental health services in schools, but...

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D-Cycloserine Facilitates Reversal in an Animal Model of Post-traumatic Stress Disorder

Sophie A. George, Mariana Rodriguez-Santiago, John Riley, James L. Abelson, more

Behavioural Brain Research > 2018 > 347 > C > 332-338

Many psychiatric disorders are associated with cognitive dysfunction that is ineffectively treated by existing pharmacotherapies and which may contribute to poor real-world functioning. D-cycloserine (DCS) is a partial N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) agonist that has attracted attention because of its cognitive enhancing properties, including in people with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Here,...

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Compassionate and self‐image goals as interpersonal maintenance factors in clinical depression and anxiety

Thane M. Erickson, M. Teresa Granillo, Jennifer Crocker, James L. Abelson, more

Journal of Clinical Psychology > 74 > 4 > 608 - 625

Objective Interpersonal models of depression and anxiety have not examined the role of interpersonal goals in shaping relationships and symptoms. Striving to promote/protect desired self‐images (self‐image goals) may undermine relationships and increase symptoms, whereas striving to support others (compassionate goals) may be protective, but clinical relevance is unknown. Method We tested effects...

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The psychology of HPA axis activation: Examining subjective emotional distress and control in a phobic fear exposure model

Stefanie E. Mayer, Michael Snodgrass, Israel Liberzon, Hedieh Briggs, more

Psychoneuroendocrinology > 2017 > 82 > C > 189-198

The HPA axis plays a key role in mediating the effects of “stress” on health, but clarifying mechanisms requires an understanding of psycho-biological linkages. There has long been an implicit assumption that subjective emotional distress (e.g., fear) should activate the HPA axis. Although this assumption was challenged 25 years ago (Curtis, 1976), laboratory studies in humans are limited. In this...

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Switching between internally and externally focused attention in obsessive-compulsive disorder: Abnormal visual cortex activation and connectivity

Emily R. Stern, Alexandra F. Muratore, Stephan F. Taylor, James L. Abelson, more

Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging > 2017 > 265 > C > 87-97

Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is characterized by excessive absorption with internally-generated distressing thoughts and urges, with difficulty incorporating external information running counter to their fears and concerns. In the present study, we experimentally probed this core feature of OCD through the use of a novel attention switching task that investigates transitions between internally...

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Sigh rate during emotional transitions: More evidence for a sigh of relief

Elke Vlemincx, Michel Meulders, James L. Abelson

Biological Psychology > 2017 > 125 > C > 163-172

Evidence suggests that sighs regulate stress and emotions, e.g. by facilitating relief. This study aimed to investigate sigh rates during relief. In addition, links between sighs, anxiety sensitivity and HPA-axis activity were explored.Healthy volunteers (N=29) were presented cues predicting the valence of subsequent stimuli. By sequencing cues that predicted pleasant or unpleasant stimuli with or...

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Neural circuitry of emotion regulation: Effects of appraisal, attention, and cortisol administration

Sean T. Ma, James L. Abelson, Go Okada, Stephan F. Taylor, more

Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience > 2017 > 17 > 2 > 437-451

Psychosocial well-being requires effective regulation of emotional responding in context of threat or stress. Neuroimaging studies have focused on instructed, volitional regulation (e.g., reappraisal or distancing), largely ignoring implicit regulation that does not involve purposeful effort to alter emotional experience. These implicit processes may or may not involve the same neural pathways as...

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Timing matters: Endogenous cortisol mediates benefits from early-day psychotherapy

Alicia E. Meuret, David Rosenfield, Lavanya Bhaskara, Richard Auchus, more

Psychoneuroendocrinology > 2016 > 74 > C > 197-202

No simple way to augment fear extinction has been established. Cortisol has shown to enhance memory extinction and preliminary evidence suggest that extinction learning maybe more successful in the morning when cortisol is high. The aim was to determine whether exposure sessions conducted earlier in the day are associated with superior therapeutic gains in extinction-based psychotherapy. We also examined...

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Cortisol, heart rate, and blood pressure as early markers of PTSD risk: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Matthew C. Morris, Natalie Hellman, James L. Abelson, Uma Rao

Clinical Psychology Review > 2016 > 49 > C > 79-91

Individuals with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) typically exhibit altered hypothalamic–pituitary-adrenal (HPA) function and sympathetic nervous system (SNS) activity. The goals of this study were to determine whether HPA and SNS alterations in the immediate aftermath of trauma predict subsequent PTSD symptom development and whether inconsistencies observed between studies can be explained by...

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Context Processing and the Neurobiology of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

Israel Liberzon, James L. Abelson

Neuron > 2016 > 92 > 1 > 14-30

Progress in clinical and affective neuroscience is redefining psychiatric illness as symptomatic expression of cellular/molecular dysfunctions in specific brain circuits. Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) has been an exemplar of this progress, with improved understanding of neurobiological systems subserving fear learning, salience detection, and emotion regulation explaining much of its phenomenology...

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Multimodal Performance Monitoring in Patients With Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

Stephan F. Taylor, Kate D. Fitzgerald, James L. Abelson

Biological Psychiatry > 2016 > 80 > 7 > 507-508

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The roles of trauma exposure and timing and anxiety comorbidity in shaping HPA axis patterns in depression

Stefanie E. Mayer, James L. Abelson, Nestor L. Lopez-Duran, Hedieh Briggs, more

Psychoneuroendocrinology > 2016 > 71 > S > 68

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PTSD SYMPTOMS ACROSS PREGNANCY AND EARLY POSTPARTUM AMONG WOMEN WITH LIFETIME PTSD DIAGNOSIS

Maria Muzik, Ellen W. McGinnis, Erika Bocknek, Diana Morelen, more

Depression and Anxiety > 33 > 7 > 584 - 591

BackgroundLittle is known about trajectories of PTSD symptoms across the peripartum period in women with trauma histories, specifically those who met lifetime PTSD diagnoses prior to pregnancy. The present study seeks to identify factors that influence PTSD symptom load across pregnancy and early postpartum, and study its impact on postpartum adaptation. MethodThe current study is a secondary analysis...

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Penn State Worry Questionnaire – 10: A new tool for measurement-based care

Beier Yao, Rebecca K. Sripada, Heide Klumpp, James L. Abelson, more

Psychiatry Research > 2016 > 239 > Complete > 62-67

The Penn State Worry Questionnaire – Past Week (PSWQ-PW) is an adaptation of the widely used Penn State Worry Questionnaire, measuring pathological worry weekly. However, it contains problematic negatively worded items and has not been validated in a large sample yet. To meet the needs of measurement-based care (MBC), we developed a shortened version (PSWQ-10) based on the PSWQ-PW, retaining only...

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Does Worrying Mean Caring Too Much? Interpersonal Prototypicality of Dimensional Worry Controlling for Social Anxiety and Depressive Symptoms

Thane M. Erickson, Michelle G. Newman, Erin C. Siebert, Jessica A. Carlile, more

Behavior Therapy > 2016 > 47 > 1 > 14-28

Worry, social anxiety, and depressive symptoms are dimensions that have each been linked to heterogeneous problems in interpersonal functioning. However, the relationships between these symptoms and interpersonal difficulties remain unclear given that most studies have examined diagnostic categories, not accounted for symptoms’ shared variability due to general distress, and investigated only interpersonal...

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Alterations in cognitive flexibility in a rat model of post-traumatic stress disorder

Sophie A. George, Mariana Rodriguez-Santiago, John Riley, James L. Abelson, more

Behavioural Brain Research > 2015 > 286 > Complete > 256-264

Exposure to stressful or traumatic events is associated with increased vulnerability to post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). This vulnerability may be partly mediated by effects of stress on the prefrontal cortex (PFC) and associated circuitry. The PFC mediates critical cognitive functions, including cognitive flexibility, which reflects an organism's ability to adaptively alter behavior in light...

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Longitudinal examination of infant baseline and reactivity cortisol from ages 7 to 16 months

Cecilia Martinez‐Torteya, Maria Muzik, Ellen W. McGinnis, Katherine L. Rosenblum, more

Developmental Psychobiology > 57 > 3 > 356 - 364

This study characterized the longitudinal evolution of HPA axis functioning from 7 to 16 months of age and identified individual and environmental factors that shape changes in HPA axis functioning over time. Participants were 167 mother–infant dyads drawn from a larger longitudinal study, recruited based on maternal history of being maltreated during childhood. Salivary cortisol levels were assessed...

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High cortisol awakening response and cortisol levels moderate exposure-based psychotherapy success

Alicia E. Meuret, Ana F. Trueba, James L. Abelson, Israel Liberzon, more

Psychoneuroendocrinology > 2015 > 51 > Complete > 331-340

Research suggests that elevated stress hormones during exposure can facilitate fear extinction in laboratory settings. However, prospective studies on the clinical benefits of endogenous cortisol on clinical improvements in naturalistic exposures are lacking.Twenty-six patients with panic disorder and agoraphobia completed three weekly in-vivo exposure sessions and a fourth session 2 months following...

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Effortful control and context interact in shaping neuroendocrine stress responses during childhood

Stefanie E. Mayer, James L. Abelson, Nestor L. Lopez-Duran

Hormones and Behavior > 2014 > 66 > 2 > 457-465

Trait and contextual factors can shape individual and group differences in hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal (HPA) response to stress; but the ways in which these factors may interact with each other to modulate stress activity have rarely been examined. Here, we investigated whether the association between a temperamental self-regulatory trait – Effortful Control (EC) – and HPA axis stress response...

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Search results for: James L. Abelson

Violence Victimization Predicts Body Mass Index One Decade Later among an Urban Sample of African American Young Adults: Sex as a Moderator and Dehydroepiandrosterone as a Mediator

Adaptive School-based Implementation of CBT (ASIC): clustered-SMART for building an optimized adaptive implementation intervention to improve uptake of mental health interventions in schools

D-Cycloserine Facilitates Reversal in an Animal Model of Post-traumatic Stress Disorder

Compassionate and self‐image goals as interpersonal maintenance factors in clinical depression and anxiety

The psychology of HPA axis activation: Examining subjective emotional distress and control in a phobic fear exposure model

Switching between internally and externally focused attention in obsessive-compulsive disorder: Abnormal visual cortex activation and connectivity

Sigh rate during emotional transitions: More evidence for a sigh of relief

Neural circuitry of emotion regulation: Effects of appraisal, attention, and cortisol administration

Timing matters: Endogenous cortisol mediates benefits from early-day psychotherapy

Cortisol, heart rate, and blood pressure as early markers of PTSD risk: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Context Processing and the Neurobiology of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

Multimodal Performance Monitoring in Patients With Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

The roles of trauma exposure and timing and anxiety comorbidity in shaping HPA axis patterns in depression

PTSD SYMPTOMS ACROSS PREGNANCY AND EARLY POSTPARTUM AMONG WOMEN WITH LIFETIME PTSD DIAGNOSIS

Penn State Worry Questionnaire – 10: A new tool for measurement-based care

Does Worrying Mean Caring Too Much? Interpersonal Prototypicality of Dimensional Worry Controlling for Social Anxiety and Depressive Symptoms

Alterations in cognitive flexibility in a rat model of post-traumatic stress disorder

Longitudinal examination of infant baseline and reactivity cortisol from ages 7 to 16 months

High cortisol awakening response and cortisol levels moderate exposure-based psychotherapy success

Effortful control and context interact in shaping neuroendocrine stress responses during childhood

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