Attentional control in OCD and GAD: Specificity and associations with core cognitive symptoms

Behaviour Research and Therapy

Volumn 49, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 756-762

  Armstrong, Thomas ^a   Zald, David H ^a   Olatunji, Bunmi O ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; GAD; Obsession; OCD; Rumination; Worry

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; ATTENTIONAL CONTROL SCALE; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENERALIZED ANXIETY DISORDER; GENERALIZED ANXIETY DISORDERS QUESTIONNAIRE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBSESSION; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE INVENTORY; PENN STATE WORRY QUESTIONNAIRE; PERSEVERATION; QUESTIONNAIRE; RUMINATION REFLECTION QUESTIONNAIRE; STATE TRAIT ANXIETY INVENTORY; STRUCTURED CLINICAL INTERVIEW FOR DSM DISORDERS; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; YALE BROWN OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE SCALE;

ADULT; ANXIETY DISORDERS; ATTENTION; COGNITION DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; SELF REPORT;

EID: 80053570145     PISSN: 00057967     EISSN: 1873622X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brat.2011.08.003     Document Type: Article

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