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In the light of the aforementioned the current study has three objectives: 1) to study the effectiveness of an in-home self-management intervention to reduce fear of falling, avoidance behavior, catastrophizing about falls in order to prevent…
The main objective of the study is to determine whether, and if so, to what extent, there are differences in memory vividness, detail and certainty between OCD patients, another anxiety disorder patients and healthy subjects in a repetitive checking…
The aim of this study is the comparison of Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR), with an empirically proven effective treatment, namely Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) in the treatment of panic disorders with or without agoraphobia.
The aim of the present study is to investigate: 1) the relationships among different cognitive measures, and 2) the specific relationship of these measures with PTSD symptoms.
The aim of this study is to examine if an increased number of awakenings in PTSD is PTSD dependent or trauma dependent. Furthermore, the purpose of the study is to examine if the nocturnal excretion of cortisol is increased.
Objective: To determine whether specific genetic variations, such as variable tandem lengths of repeats and polymorphisms, in certain genes are more prevalent in people with panic disorder than in controls. To determine whether contribution of these…
To contribute to the improvement of mental health care to traumatised asylum seekers and refugees.
-To test the efficacy and determine the costs of a multifaceted intervention program to reduce falls incidence rate and fear of falling, and thereby improve mental wellbeing in community dwelling frail elders, with high level of comorbidity and…
The aim of this pilot-study is to establish the potential efficacy of acute doses of 50 mgs D-cycloserine (DCS), a partial NMDA agonist, in accelerating and/or augmenting the effect of exposure and response prevention (ERP) in the treatment of…
To identify factors that have an influence on the reproductive decision-making for a subsequent pregnancy of women having a child with congential anatomical anomalies.
In this research study the role of context in extinction will be investigated in healthy adults in a laboratory setting. Renewal of fear will be compared in two contexts of different modality: a visual context (the illumination of the room) and an…
Cognitive processes and the development of psychopathology in children at risk for anxiety disorders
Goal of the study is to establish evidence on cognitive biases in a high risk population and on the longitudinal impact of such biases. We hypothesize that CPAD*s show biases in their information processing when compared to control children. We…
To establish the efficacy of heart coherence training with regard to anxiety / fear of failure, wellbeing, heart coherence and study results
The present study is aimed at testing the effects of D-cycloserine in addition to exposure treatment sessions in PTSD patients, in a randomized double blind placebo controlled study.
The aim of this study is to examine arousals in PTSD, and to investigate the correlation of arousals with nocturnal excretion of hormones of the HPA-axis.
Testing the feasibility of testing FPS as part of an anxiety test battery several times on one test day (pilot study 1) and repeating this procedure across several test days (pilot study 2).
-Identify the neural correlates of enhanced formation of emotional memory, and parse the role of adrenal stress hormones in this process.-Identify the neural correlates of enhanced consolidation of emotional memory and parse the role of adrenal…
Our main objective is to gain insight in the possibly causal role of belief bias in maintaining social phobia. As a subsidiary issue, we wish to disentangle the differential influences of automatic beliefs and analytic reasoning processes in…