Tag: Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
Anxiety disorders show hyper-scanning and hyper-pursuit eye movements
What the study found Patients with anxiety disorders showed distinct eye movement patterns compared with people with depressive disorders and healthy controls. These patterns were called hyper-scanning during free viewing and hyper-pursuit during smooth pursuit. Why the authors say this matters The authors conclude that these eye movement patterns may serve as measurable behavioural markers…
Discrete emotions and social connectedness are linked in anxiety and depression
Network analysis reveals how specific emotions relate to social connection in anxiety and depression, identifying hope, joy, sadness, and love as central to these relationships.
Mental health symptoms predict flexible inference use
Study shows that specific mental health symptoms predict how people use flexible reasoning when making complex inferences, with alterations in goal-directed decision-making as a key mechanism.
Neural activity patterns predicted treatment response in internalizing disorders
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in PsychiatryNeural fMRI patterns predict treatment response in depression and anxiety through emotion regulation pathways, offering insights for precision medicine approaches.
Repeated exposure improved self-ratings in childhood social anxiety disorder
Repeated exposure with brief support modestly improves self-appraisal in children with social anxiety disorder, though distorted self-evaluation persists as a core clinical feature.
Russian cognitive distortions form a hierarchical co-occurrence network
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in PsychologyStudy validates cognitive distortion architecture in Russian discourse using AI analysis of 249,414 social media texts, identifying 443,447 distortion instances across 18 categories with stable.
Higher PCS-MDD linked to greater stress-related emotional variability
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in PsychiatryLongitudinal study examining how neural vulnerability markers predict stress-related emotional variability in adolescents using polyconnectomic depression risk scoring.
