Browsing by Author "McNally, Richard"
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Anxiety Sensitivity in Bereaved Adults With and Without Complicated Grief
Robinaugh, Donald John; McNally, Richard J.; Leblanc, Nicole Jennifer; Pentel, Kimberly Z.; Schwarz, Noah R.; Shah, Riva M.; Nadal-Vicens, Mireya F; Moore, Cynthia Wilson; Marques, Luana; Bui, Eric; Simon, Naomi Michele (Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health), 2014)Complicated grief (CG) is a bereavement-specific syndrome chiefly characterized by symptoms of persistent separation distress. Physiological reactivity to reminders of the loss and repeated acute pangs or waves of severe ... -
Are We Winning the War against Posttraumatic Stress Disorder?
McNally, Richard J. (American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2012)The most methodologically rigorous epidemiological study on American military personnel deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan found that 4.3% of troops developed posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Among deployed combatants, ... -
Attention bias modification for social anxiety: A systematic review and meta-analysis
Heeren, Alexandre; Mogoase, Cristina; Philippot, Pierre; McNally, Richard J. (Elsevier BV, 2015)Research on attention bias modification (ABM) for social anxiety disorder (SAD) is inconclusive, with some studies finding clear positive effects and other studies finding no significant benefit relative to control training ... -
Attention Bias Modification Training Via Smartphone to Reduce Social Anxiety: A Randomized, Controlled Multi-Session Experiment
Enock, Philip Miles; Hofmann, Stefan G.; McNally, Richard J. (Springer Science + Business Media, 2014)Testing feasibility and efficacy of psychological treatment via mobile devices is important, given its potential benefits for high-dosage treatment delivery, widespread and inexpensive dissemination, and efficient research ... -
Attention Training Toward and Away from Threat in Social Phobia: Effects on Subjective, Behavioral, and Physiological Measures of Anxiety
Heeren, Alexandre; Reese, Hannah Elizabeth; McNally, Richard J.; Philippot, Pierre (Elsevier, 2012)Social Phobics exhibit an attentional bias for threat in probe detection and probe discrimination paradigms. Attention training programs, whereby probes always replace nonthreat cues, reduce attentional bias for threat ... -
Attentional bias modification in depression through gaze contingencies and regulatory control using a new eye-tracking intervention paradigm: study protocol for a placebo-controlled trial
Vazquez, Carmelo; Blanco, Ivan; Sanchez, Alvaro; McNally, Richard J. (BioMed Central, 2016)Background: Attentional biases, namely difficulties both to disengage attention from negative information and to maintain it on positive information, play an important role in the onset and maintenance of the disorder. ... -
A Bayesian network analysis of posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms in adults reporting childhood sexual abuse
McNally, Richard J.; Heeren, Alexandre; Robinaugh, Donald John (Informa UK Limited, 2017)Background: The network approach to mental disorders offers a novel framework for conceptualizing posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) as a causal system of interacting symptoms. Objective: In this study, we extended ... -
Can We Solve the Mysteries of the National Vietnam Veterans Readjustment Study?
McNally, Richard (Elsevier, 2007)The National Vietnam Veterans Readjustment Study (NVVRS) researchers reported that 30.9% of all men who served in that conflict developed posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) even though only about 15% had been assigned ... -
Cognitive Aspects of Nonclinical Obsessive-Compulsive Hoarding
Luchian, Sara A.; McNally, Richard; Hooley, Jill (Elsevier, 2007)Research on the cognitive variables associated with obsessive-compulsive hoarding is scarce. In this study, we investigated cognitive variables that may contribute to the maintenance and possibly etiology of hoarding. ... -
Creative histories: Memories of past lives and measures of creativity.
Meyersburg, Cynthia Adelle; Carson, Shelley Harrison; Mathis, Melinda B.; McNally, Richard J. (American Psychological Association (APA), 2014)Experiencing memories of past lives is anomalous in Western culture. Such experiences may signify an overinclusive cognitive style, associated with creative ability. Accordingly, are reports of past life memory (PLM) ... -
Does the Repressor Coping Style Predict Lower Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms?
McNally, Richard J.; Hatch, John P.; Cedillos, Elizabeth M.; Luethcke, Cynthia A.; Baker, Monty T.; Peterson, Alan L.; Litz, Brett T. (Association of Military Surgeons of the U.S., 2011)We tested whether a continuous measure of repressor coping style predicted lower posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms in 122 health care professionals serving in Operation Iraqi Freedom. Zero-order correlational ... -
Don’t panic: Interpretation bias is predictive of new onsets of panic disorder
Woud, Marcella L.; Zhang, Xiao Chi; Becker, Eni S.; McNally, Richard J.; Margraf, Jürgen (Elsevier BV, 2014)Psychological models of panic disorder postulate that interpretation of ambiguous material as threatening is an important maintaining factor for the disorder. However, demonstrations of whether such a bias predicts onset ... -
Duration of Recovery and Susceptibility to Criticism-Induced Information-Processing Biases in Major Depression
Angel, Jason (2013-02-22)Major depression is a highly prevalent disorder that affects millions of individuals worldwide each year. Theorists such as Aaron T. Beck (1967; 1976) revolutionized how depression is understood by proposing that cognitive ... -
Effects of emotionally valenced working memory taxation on negative memories
Tsai, Cynthia; McNally, Richard J. (Elsevier BV, 2014)Background and objectives: Memories enter a labile state during recollection. Thus, memory changes that occur during recollection can affect future instances of its activation. Having subjects perform a secondary task that ... -
Explaining "Memories" of Space Alien Abduction and Past Lives: An Experimental Psychopathology Approach
McNally, Richard J. (Textrum, 2012)In this article, I describe how my colleagues, students, and I have used the methods of experimental psychopathology to explain why seemingly sincere, nonpsychotic people claim to have memories of being abducted by space ... -
Exposure to Hurricane-Related Stressors and Mental Illness after Hurricane Katrina
Kessler, Ronald; Gruber, Michael; McNally, Richard; Petukhova, Maria; Ursano, Robert J.; King, Lynda A.; King, Daniel W.; Jones, Russell T.; Brewin, Chris R.; Galea, Sandro (American Medical Association, 2006)Context: Uncertainty exists about the prevalence, severity, and correlates of mental disorders among people exposed to Hurricane Katrina. Objective: To estimate the prevalence and associations between DSM-IV anxiety-mood ... -
Inter-Identity Autobiographical Amnesia in Patients with Dissociative Identity Disorder
Huntjens, Rafaële J. C.; Verschuere, Bruno; McNally, Richard J. (Public Library of Science, 2012)Background: A major symptom of Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID; formerly Multiple Personality Disorder) is dissociative amnesia, the inability to recall important personal information. Only two case studies have directly ... -
Linking Thought Suppression and Recovered Memories of Childhood Sexual Abuse
Geraerts, Elke; McNally, Richard; Jelicic, Marko; Merckelbach, Harald; Raymaekers, Linsey (Taylor & Francis, 2008)There are two types of recovered memories: those that gradually return in recovered memory therapy and those that are spontaneously recovered outside the context of therapy. In the current study, we employed a thought ... -
Making an IMPACT: Designing and Testing a Novel Attentional Training Game to Reduce Social Anxiety
Enock, Philip M. (2015-04-30)Development of novel candidate interventions to treat anxiety disorders is an important research priority, given the burden of these disorders, barriers to treatment access, and the promising but limited success of current ... -
Mental Disorders as Causal Systems
McNally, Richard J.; Robinaugh, Donald John; Wu, Gwyneth Winnie Y; Wang, Li; Deserno, M. K.; Borsboom, D. (SAGE Publications, 2014)Debates about posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) often turn on whether it is a timeless, cross-culturally valid natural phenomenon or a socially constructed idiom of distress. Most clinicians seem to favor the first view, ...