A5082100255- Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health
- Migration, Health and Trauma
- Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum
- Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Child Abuse and Trauma
- Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research
- Schizophrenia research and treatment
- Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Homicide, Infanticide, and Child Abuse
- Child Welfare and Adoption
- Homelessness and Social Issues
- Mental Health Research Topics
- Neuroscience and Music Perception
- Health disparities and outcomes
- Family Support in Illness
- Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
- Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
- Gun Ownership and Violence Research
- Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues
- Creativity in Education and Neuroscience
- Maternal and Perinatal Health Interventions
- Personality Disorders and Psychopathology
- Family Caregiving in Mental Illness
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
2014-2024
Henry M. Jackson Foundation
2020-2024
Columbia University
2016
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
2003-2014
University of Maryland, Baltimore
2008-2011
National Institutes of Health
2002
National Institute of Mental Health
2002
Anxiety is characterized by cognitive biases, including attentional bias to emotional (especially threatening) stimuli. Accounts differ on the time course of attention threat, but literature generally confounds valence and arousal overlooks gender effects, both addressed in present study. Nonpatients high self-reported anxious apprehension, arousal, or neither completed an emotion-word Stroop task during event-related potential (ERP) recording. Hypotheses differentiated preferential...
Functional MRI (fMRI) was used to examine the relationship between processing of pleasant and unpleasant stimuli activity in prefrontal cortex. Twenty volunteers identified colors which pleasant, neutral, words were printed. Pleasant prompted more bilaterally dorsolateral cortex (DLPFC) than did words. In addition, left right DLPFC. Response speed correlated with DLPFC activity. These data directly link positive affect, enhanced performance, activity, providing some first fMRI evidence...
The purpose of this article was to examine the accuracy DSM-5 proposed criteria for persistent complex bereavement disorder in identifying putative cases clinically impairing grief and excluding nonclinical cases. Performance sets prolonged complicated were similarly assessed.Participants family members U.S. military service who died any cause since September 11, 2001 (N=1,732). Putative clinical samples derived from community sample using cutoff scores Inventory Complicated Grief Work...
Extreme-groups designs (EGDs) are common in psychopathology research, often using diagnostic category as an independent variable. Continuous-variable analysis strategies drawing from a general linear model framework can be applied to such designs. The growing emphasis on dimensional examinations of psychological constructs, encouraged by the National Institute Mental Health Research Domain Criteria framework, encourages continuous-variable analytic strategies. However, interpretative...
Negatively valenced stimuli foster cognitive impairment in schizotypy and schizophrenia. To identify relevant brain mechanisms, the authors had 16 positive-schizotypy control participants perform an emotional Stroop task, judging ink color of negative neutral words during functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) regional activity. Schizotypy individuals showed increased right decreased left activity dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, indicating a deficit maintenance attentional set presence...
Abstract Background Distinguishing a disorder of persistent and impairing grief from normative allows clinicians to identify this often undetected disabling condition. As four diagnostic criteria sets for have been proposed, their similarities differences need be elucidated. Methods Participants were family members bereaved by US military service death ( N = 1732). We conducted analyses assess the accuracy each set in identifying threshold cases (participants who endorsed baseline Inventory...
An individual's self-reported abilities to attend to, understand, and reinterpret emotional situations or events have been associated with anxiety depression, but it is unclear how these affect the processing of stimuli, especially in individuals symptoms.The present study recorded event-related brain potentials while reporting features depression completed an emotion-word Stroop task.Results indicated that anxious apprehension, arousal, were emotion abilities, consistent prior literature.In...
Reviewed by JOSCELYN E. FISHERAs I listen to a live-streaming performance at the 2017 Van Cliburn Iternational Piano Competition, crystal-clear, shimmering notes delicately spinning from pianis...
Schizophrenic patients generate fewer words than healthy controls during verbal fluency tasks. The structure of output may explain why exemplars.Twenty-four and 24 with schizophrenia participated in six, 3 min semantic In a subsequent session, participants were given cards, each printed one their own generated from previous Participants to sort the cards into categories (e.g. subcategories 'animals'), thus defining words, thereby eliminating experimenter assumptions about word relatedness....
Anxiety is characterized by attentional biases to threat, but findings are inconsistent for depression. To address this inconsistency, the present study systematically assessed role of co-occurring anxiety in bias In addition, emotional valence, arousal, and gender was explored. Ninety-two nonpatients completed Penn State Worry Questionnaire (PSWQ; Meyer et al., 1990; Molina & Borkovec, 1994) portions Mood Symptom (MASQ; Watson, Clark, 1995; Weber, 1995). Individuals reporting high levels...
U.S. military service members die from a variety of causes (i.e., accidents, combat, illnesses, homicide, suicide, and terrorism) while on duty in greater numbers during times war, leaving behind bereaved dependent family members. Identifying characteristics these families improves our understanding their unique needs, helps educate providers who offer assistance to surviving members, better informs policy addressing health well-being. This study describes deceased (DSMs) died active between...
Recent theory and empirical research suggest that child neglect is a heterogeneous phenomenon characterized by various types. This study examined family risk factors associated with five types including failure to provide physical needs, lack of supervision, emotional neglect, moral-legal educational in 390 substantiated cases four U.S. Army communities. Family elevated each type relative other were identified using multivariate regression. Relatively distinct sets differentially the mental...
Bereavement by sudden and violent deaths can lead to increased grief severity, depression, reduced posttraumatic growth compared those bereaved natural causes. These outcomes be affected coping strategies whether a survivor had been "prepared" for the death. The present study examined effect of considering possibility death on in deaths.Participants suicide, accident, or combat completed an online survey about demographics (including cause death), coping, growth. A factor analysis measure...
Children who experience neglect typically endure multiple types of and abuse during a single maltreatment incident. However, research on the phenomenology predictors has primarily examined in isolation. To advance understanding incidents that more accurately reflect experiences children have been neglected, we latent classes defined by co-occurring forms abuse. inform efforts to identify families at-risk for particular neglect, associations between child, parent, family characteristics were...
Suspiciousness is usually classified as a symptom of psychosis, but it also occurs in depression and anxiety disorders. Though how suspiciousness overlaps with not obvious, does seem to overlap anxious apprehension arousal (e.g., verbal iterative processes vigilance about environmental threat). However, has unique characteristics concern harm from others social Given that both have been associated abnormalities emotion processing, unclear whether the or drive processing. Event-related brain...
Abstract Studies of terrorism‐related deaths are few and mostly focus on short‐term effects. To characterize long‐term bereavement outcomes, including resilience/recovery patterns comorbidity, following the September 11, 2001 (9/11), terrorist attacks, we report mental health conditions grief‐related impairment in 454 9/11 bereaved family members. In addition, contribution non‐9/11 lifetime traumas, pre‐9/11 conditions, post‐9/11 interim life events, grief services, income adequacy, social...
Increases in combat deployments have been associated with rises rates of child neglect U.S. military families. Although various types described families, it is unknown whether deployment status specific and other factors, such as substance misuse, play a role. To determine the contribution service member to risk types, data were collected from 390 substantiated Army case files. The contributions at time incident parental alcohol or drug-related misuse examined controlling for family rank...
Background Bereavement is associated with cognitive difficulties, but it unclear whether these difficulties are normative and/or complicated grief (CG) and how comorbid depression anxiety contribute to them. Self-reported "minor errors in thinking" (i.e., failures) may manifest following bereavement be differentially affected by CG, anxiety, depression. Methods Associations between perceived failures were investigated 581 bereaved participants. To examine both single conditions across the...