Cognitive deficits are now widely recognized to be an important component of anxiety. In
particular, anxiety is thought to restrict the capacity of working memory by competing with …

Clinical anxiety disorders and elevated levels of anxiety vulnerability are characterized by
cognitive biases, and this processing selectivity has been implicated in theoretical accounts …

In this review paper a modified cognitive neurophysiological model of Aaron T. Beck's
cognitive formulation of anxiety and depression is proposed that provides an elaborated …

We present an evidence-based model of pathological worry in which worry arises from an
interaction between involuntary (bottom-up) processes, such as habitual biases in attention …

Psychological research increasingly indicates that emotional processes interact with other
aspects of cognition. Studies have demonstrated both the ability of emotional stimuli to …

There is substantial evidence that heightened anxiety vulnerability is characterized by
increased selective attention to threatening information. The reliability of this anxiety-linked …

Despite the established evidence for threat-related attention bias in anxiety, the mechanisms
underlying this bias remain unclear. One important unresolved question is whether disorder …

Cognitive theories of depression and anxiety have traditionally emphasized the role of
attentional biases in the processing of negative information. The dot-probe task has been …

There is considerable controversy about the role of child sexual abuse in the etiology of
anxiety disorders. Although a growing number of research studies have been published …

We systematically review the literature on approach-avoidance (AA) tendencies in mental
disorders, including 97 empirical studies. Most evidence for the role of biased AA tendencies …