Rationale Preclinical data indicates that threat stimuli elicit two classes of defensive
behaviors, those that are associated with imminent danger and are characterized by flight or …

Behavioral evidence suggests that emotion processing deficits in individuals with autism
spectrum disorders (ASD) may occur at the level of basic (early, rapid, automatic) affective …

Objective: The plasticity of the startle reflex, including prepulse inhibition (PPI) and
habituation, provides operational measures of information processing that are abnormal in …

Background This report presents the results of confirmatory factor analyses of patterns of
comorbidity among 10 common mental disorders in the National Comorbidity Survey, a …

Psychopathology researchers have come to recognize that the boundaries between
putatively distinct psychiatric disorders do not cleanly map to the more complex …

60 Impulsivity and Compulsivity and dimensions of personality related to impulsive and
compulsive behavior have remained in question because of the apparent absence of any …

Using outpatients with anxiety and mood disorders (N= 350), the authors tested several
models of the structural relationships of dimensions of key features of selected emotional …

Advancing our understanding of the cognitive underpinnings of psychopathology, this is the
first volume to focus on the role of unwanted intrusive thoughts, images, and impulses in a …

Ever since Poetzl's studies, subliminal stimulation has been used as a paradigm to explore
the connection between unconscious processes and psychopathology. Inspired by the …

Background Delineating specific clinical phenotypes of anxiety disorders is a crucial step
toward better classification and understanding of these conditions. The present study sought …