[HTML][HTML] The role of intolerance of uncertainty in classical threat conditioning: Recent developments and directions for future research

J Morriss, DV Zuj, G Mertens - International Journal of Psychophysiology, 2021 - Elsevier
Intolerance of uncertainty (IU), the tendency to find uncertainty aversive, is an important
transdiagnostic dimension in mental health disorders. Over the last decade, there has been …

Measuring learning in human classical threat conditioning: Translational, cognitive and methodological considerations

KE Ojala, DR Bach - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2020 - Elsevier
Threat conditioning is a laboratory model of associative learning across species that is often
used in research on the etiology and treatment of anxiety disorders. At least 10 different …

Anxiety and the neurobiology of temporally uncertain threat anticipation

J Hur, JF Smith, KA DeYoung… - Journal of …, 2020 - Soc Neuroscience
When extreme, anxiety—a state of distress and arousal prototypically evoked by uncertain
danger—can be debilitating. Uncertain anticipation is a shared feature of situations that elicit …

Bed nucleus of the stria terminalis regulates fear to unpredictable threat signals

TD Goode, RL Ressler, GM Acca, OW Miles, S Maren - Elife, 2019 - elifesciences.org
The bed nucleus of the stria terminalis (BNST) has been implicated in conditioned fear and
anxiety, but the specific factors that engage the BNST in defensive behaviors are unclear …

[HTML][HTML] Responding to uncertain threat: A potential mediator for the effect of mindfulness on anxiety

I Papenfuss, MJJ Lommen, C Grillon… - Journal of Anxiety …, 2021 - Elsevier
Mindfulness-based interventions have gained extensive support for their application in the
treatment of anxiety. However, their mechanisms remain largely unexplored. Excessive …

Intolerance of uncertainty is associated with heightened responding in the prefrontal cortex during cue-signalled uncertainty of threat

J Morriss, T Bell, N Biagi, T Johnstone… - Cognitive, Affective, & …, 2021 - Springer
Heightened responding to uncertain threat is considered a hallmark of anxiety disorder
pathology. We sought to determine whether individual differences in self-reported …

An experimental investigation into the mediating role of pain-related fear in boosting nocebo hyperalgesia

MA Thomaidou, DS Veldhuijzen, A Meulders… - Pain, 2021 - journals.lww.com
Nocebo hyperalgesia refers to increases in perceived pain that putatively result from
negative expectations regarding a nocebo stimulus (eg, an inert treatment, compared with …

Uncertain in the face of change: Lack of contingency shift awareness during extinction is associated with higher fear-potentiated startle and PTSD symptoms in …

T Jovanovic, CN Wiltshire, MH Reda, J France… - International Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Intolerance of uncertainty is a transdiagnostic risk factor for fear-related disorders and is
associated with higher levels of anxiety in children and adolescents. It is unclear how …

What do I do now? Intolerance of uncertainty is associated with discrete patterns of anticipatory physiological responding to different contexts

J Morriss - Psychophysiology, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Heightened physiological responses to uncertainty are a common hallmark of anxiety
disorders. Many separate studies have examined the relationship between individual …

Dissociable impact of childhood trauma and deployment trauma on affective modulation of startle

DM Stout, S Powell, A Kangavary, DT Acheson… - Neurobiology of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Trauma disorders are often associated with alterations in aversive anticipation and
disruptions in emotion/fear circuits. Heightened or blunted anticipatory responding to …