Startle potentiation to uncertain threat as a psychophysiological indicator of fear-based psychopathology: An examination across multiple internalizing disorders.

SM Gorka, L Lieberman, SA Shankman… - Journal of abnormal …, 2017 - psycnet.apa.org
internalizing disorders display exaggerated anticipatory anxiety in response to uncertain or
ambiguous threat. The … disorders as they were found to display relatively normal responses to …

The role of intolerance of uncertainty in current and remitted internalizing and externalizing psychopathology

KA Correa, H Liu, SA Shankman - Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 2019 - Elsevier
uncertain, but not predictable, threat is positively correlated with a family history of alcohol
use disorder … The increased reactivity to uncertain threat evidenced in individuals with AUD …

Neural correlates of predictable and unpredictable threat in internalizing psychopathology

M Radoman, KL Phan, SM Gorka - Neuroscience letters, 2019 - Elsevier
… Those with internalizing disorders had heightened insula activation to U-threat. … U-threat
is temporally uncertain and of varying intensity, frequency and/or duration. It involves situations …

Heightened reactivity to uncertain threat as a neurobehavioral marker of suicidal ideation in individuals with depression and anxiety

L Lieberman, K Petrey, SA Shankman, KL Phan… - International Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
… Study 2 recruited biological sibling pairs, and so instances where both siblings met criteria
for a current internalizing disorder, only one individual was chosen at random to be included …

Neurobiological sensitivity to unpredictable threat and familial risk for the internalizing and externalizing spectra in adolescents

CC Beatty, RA Ferry, NR Eaton, DN Klein… - Psychological …, 2023 - cambridge.org
… suppression to unpredictable threat. The maternal internalizing spectrum was positively
associated with adolescent startle potentiation to unpredictable threat and P300 suppression to …

The impact of startle reactivity to unpredictable threat on the relation between bullying victimization and internalizing psychopathology

M Radoman, FD Akinbo, KM Rospenda… - Journal of psychiatric …, 2019 - Elsevier
… sensitized to other forms of ambiguous or uncertain threat, regardless of its true potential to
… individuals were not required to have a DSM diagnosis of internalizing disorders. Instead, …

Reactivity to unpredictable threat as a treatment target for fear-based anxiety disorders

SM Gorka, L Lieberman, H Klumpp, KL Kinney… - Psychological …, 2017 - cambridge.org
… directly targets reactivity to uncertain threats/stressors than … to U-threat as a potential
organizing ‘Potential Threat’ construct … report) for certain internalizing disorders and an objective, …

Engaging in risky and impulsive behaviors to alleviate distress mediates associations between intolerance of uncertainty and externalizing psychopathology

N Sadeh, K Bredemeier - Journal of personality disorders, 2021 - Guilford Press
… dampens physiological reactivity to uncertain (but not certain) threat, suggesting that use of
internalizing disorder symptoms in our models to examine whether intolerance of uncertainty

Preliminary evidence that reactivity to uncertain threat is an endophenotype for alcohol use disorder

SM Gorka, SA Shankman - Drug and alcohol dependence, 2017 - Elsevier
… Individuals with a lifetime history of an internalizing disorder exhibited greater startle
magnitude during the task compared with individuals without a history of an internalizing disorder. …

Intolerance of uncertainty and threat generalization: A replication and extension

EA Bauer, A MacNamara, A Sandre… - …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
… Intolerance of uncertainty (IU) is a transdiagnostic risk factor for internalizing disorders.
Prior work has found that IU may be associated with either increased reactivity to threat or, …