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SUBMITTER: Kircanski K
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4811602 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kircanski Katharina K Johnson Douglas C DC Mateen Maria M Bjork Robert A RA Gotlib Ian H IH
Clinical psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science 20150807 2
Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) is characterized by cognitive biases toward threat-relevant information, but the underlying mechanisms are unclear. We translated a retrieval-practice paradigm from cognitive science to investigate impaired inhibition of threat information as one such mechanism. Participants diagnosed with GAD and never-disordered control participants learned a series of cue-target pairs; whereas some cues were associated only with neutral targets, others were associated with b ...[more]