A5026141405- Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders
- Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
- Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research
- Emotions and Moral Behavior
- Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Studies
- Interstitial Lung Diseases and Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis
- Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
- Stress Responses and Cortisol
- Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
- Treatment of Major Depression
- Cultural Competency in Health Care
- Nursing Education, Practice, and Leadership
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
- Anesthesia and Neurotoxicity Research
- Resilience and Mental Health
- Child Abuse and Trauma
- Eating Disorders and Behaviors
- Infrastructure Resilience and Vulnerability Analysis
- Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
- Body Image and Dysmorphia Studies
- Information and Cyber Security
- Social and Intergroup Psychology
Yale University
2015-2025
University of Kentucky
2020-2024
VA San Diego Healthcare System
2024
University of California, San Diego
2024
VA Connecticut Healthcare System
2016-2023
United States Department of Veterans Affairs
2020-2023
Sandia National Laboratories
2021-2023
National Center for PTSD
2018-2021
Sandia National Laboratories California
2021
Rogers Behavioral Health
2020
Although several measures of obsessive-compulsive (OC) symptoms exist, most are limited in that they not consistent with the recent empirical findings on nature and dimensional structure obsessions compulsions. In present research, authors developed evaluated a measure called Dimensional Obsessive-Compulsive Scale (DOCS) to address limitations existing OC symptom measures. The DOCS is 20-item assesses four dimensions reliably replicated previous structural research. Factorial validity was...
Individuals with obsessive-compulsive disorder often identify psychosocial stress as a factor that exacerbates their symptoms, and many trace the onset of symptoms to stressful period life or discrete traumatic incident. However, pathophysiological relationship between remains poorly characterized: it is unclear whether trauma an independent cause triggering interacts preexisting diathesis, simply nonspecific can exacerbate along other aspects psychiatric symptomatology. Nonetheless,...
This investigation examined the measurement properties of Three Domains Disgust Scale (TDDS). Principal components analysis in Study 1 ( n = 206) revealed three factors Pathogen, Sexual, and Moral that demonstrated excellent reliability, including test–retest over 12 weeks. Confirmatory factor analyses 2 406) supported factors. Supportive evidence for validity Pathogen Sexual subscales was found with strong associations disgust/contamination weak negative affect. However, subscale limited. 3...
Disgust has been implicated as a potential causal agent underlying socio-political attitudes and behaviors. Several recent studies have suggested that pathogen disgust may be mechanism social conservatism. However, the specificity of this effect is still in question. The present study tested effects on range policy preferences to clarify whether generally political conservatism across public or uniquely related specific content domains. Self-reported were compared between participants two...
Background Exposed-based psychotherapy is a mainstay of treatment for obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and anxious psychopathology. The medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) the default mode network (DMN), which anchored by mPFC, promote safety learning. Neuromodulation targeting mPFC might augment therapeutic learning enhance response to exposure-based therapies. Methods To characterize effects neuromodulation on functional connectivity, 17 community volunteers completed resting-state magnetic...
Cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) patients with minoritized racial/ethnic backgrounds report similar outcomes as White but may weaker alliances and less frequent CBT skill use. Given its transdiagnostic utility, we tested how background impacted treatment outcomes, the alliance, use in Unified Protocol (UP). Participants (N = 70, Mage 33.7, 67% female, 74% White) emotional disorders completed six sessions of core UP modules. rated their past-week anxiety, depression, before each session...
Cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) patients with minoritized racial/ethnic backgrounds report similar outcomes as White but may weaker alliances and less frequent CBT skill use. Given its transdiagnostic utility, we tested how background impacted treatment outcomes, the alliance, use in Unified Protocol (UP). Participants (N = 70, Mage 33.7, 67% female, 74% White) emotional disorders completed six sessions of core UP modules. rated their past-week anxiety, depression, before each session...
Cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) patients with minoritized racial/ethnic backgrounds report similar outcomes as White but may weaker alliances and less frequent CBT skill use. Given its transdiagnostic utility, we tested how background impacted treatment outcomes, the alliance, use in Unified Protocol (UP). Participants (N = 70, Mage 33.7, 67% female, 74% White) emotional disorders completed six sessions of core UP modules. rated their past-week anxiety, depression, before each session...
Recent research has highlighted the central role of disgust in etiology and maintenance contamination aversion (CA). Data would also suggest that, although amendable to treatment choice for CA (exposure response prevention [ERP]), is resistant habituation. However, with regard CA, it not yet known if disgust's resistance habituation an artifact emotion or disorder. Specifically, indicated severity moderates effect ERP on disgust. Utilizing undergraduate convenience sample (n=33), present...
Cognitive accounts of obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) assert that core beliefs are crucial to the development, maintenance, and treatment disorder. There a number considered fundamental OCD, including personal responsibility, threat estimation, perfectionism, need for certainty, importance thoughts, thought control. The present study investigated if pretreatment severity beliefs, as well change in following treatment, predicted intensive, residential cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT)...
Novel interventions are urgently needed to treat methamphetamine use disorder (MUD), for which there no FDA-approved treatments. Previous studies in patients with MUD suggest transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) over the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (L. dlPFC) decreases craving methamphetamine. Theta burst (TBS), includes intermittent TBS and continuous (cTBS), is increasingly being used substance disorders, including MUD. reviews of TMS performed sub-group meta-analyses that...
Cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) patients with minoritized racial/ethnic backgrounds report similar outcomes as White but may weaker alliances and less frequent CBT skill use. Given its transdiagnostic utility, we tested how background impacted treatment outcomes, the alliance, use in Unified Protocol (UP). Participants (N = 70, Mage 33.7, 67% female, 74% White) emotional disorders completed six sessions of core UP modules. rated their past-week anxiety, depression, before each session...
Cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) patients with minoritized racial/ethnic backgrounds report similar outcomes as White but may weaker alliances and less frequent CBT skill use. Given its transdiagnostic utility, we tested how background impacted treatment outcomes, the alliance, use in Unified Protocol (UP). Participants (N = 70, Mage 33.7, 67% female, 74% White) emotional disorders completed six sessions of core UP modules. rated their past-week anxiety, depression, before each session...
Little is known of the retest reliability emotional cognitive tasks or impact using different employing similar stimuli within a battery. We investigated this in healthy subjects. found improved overall performance an attentional blink task (EABT) with repeat testing at one hour and week compared to baseline, but stimulus on was unchanged. Similarly, facial expression recognition (FERT) better after baseline test, though relative effect specific emotions unaltered. There no word...