Journal of Abnormal Psychology
January 1, 2000
James Williams, John D. Teasdale, Zindel V. Segal et al.
436 citations
Recovered depressed patients who received a psychological treatment designed to reduce relapse risk recalled fewer generic memories in response to cue words, while those receiving usual care showed no change. This suggests that overgeneral autobiographical memory, previously observed in depressed, suicidal, and PTSD patients, can be modified through treatment.
Journal of Abnormal Psychology
August 1, 2020
P. Corlett, Aprajita Mohanty, A. MacDonald
The predictive processing framework (PPF) offers a grand unifying theory of mind and brain function, integrating concepts from physics, computer science, mathematics, artificial intelligence, economics, psychology, and neuroscience to explain how the brain generates consciousness, how the body influences cognition, and how cognition alters perception. This special issue of the Journal of Abnormal Psychology examines PPF's utility in accounting for individual differences such as psychopathology, assessing the state of the art in applying PPF to mental illness symptoms, leveraging its insights to systematize explanations and treatments, and using clinical challenges to refine or refute aspects of the framework.
Journal of Abnormal Psychology
August 6, 2015
K. Hefner, Mark. J. Starr, John Curtin
Heavy marijuana users who are deprived of the drug show reduced valuation of uncertain rewards, especially when those rewards are more objectively valuable, and this uncertainty aversion increases with greater marijuana use. This suggests that marijuana use produces decision-making vulnerabilities similar to those seen with other drugs of abuse, pointing to potential targets for intervention.
Journal of Abnormal Psychology
August 1, 2011
Nirit Soffer-Dudek, Golan Shahar
Among young adults, daily stress brings about general sleep-related experiences such as nightmares, falling dreams, and hypnagogic hallucinations, but only for those with high levels of dissociation. Trait dissociation predicted within-subject increases in these experiences when daily stress was high. The effect may be explained by flawed sleep-wake transitions, which have previously been linked to dissociation and sleep-related experiences.
Journal of Abnormal Psychology
November 1, 2001
D Watson
Dissociation, schizotypy, and unusual sleep experiences (such as hypnagogic hallucinations, nightmares, and waking dreams) are strongly interrelated, forming a common domain of unusual cognitions and perceptions. Lucid dreaming, however, is only weakly related to these other measures. The strong correlation between dissociation and schizotypy can be partly explained by overlapping items measuring detachment or depersonalization; removing those items sharpens the distinction between the two constructs. Sleep experiences are more closely tied to dissociation than to schizotypy, and only weakly associated with the Big Five personality traits.