Effect of attention training on attention bias variability and PTSD symptoms: Randomized controlled trials in Israeli and US combat veterans

AS Badura-Brack, R Naim, TJ Ryan… - American Journal of …, 2015 - Am Psychiatric Assoc
Objective: Attention allocation to threat is perturbed in patients with posttraumatic stress
disorder (PTSD), with some studies indicating excess attention to threat and others indicating …

Veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder exhibit altered emotional processing and attentional control during an emotional Stroop task

MM Khanna, AS Badura-Brack, TJ McDermott… - Psychological …, 2017 - cambridge.org
BackgroundPost-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is often associated with attention allocation
and emotional regulation difficulties, but the brain dynamics underlying these deficits are …

Male veterans with PTSD exhibit aberrant neural dynamics during working memory processing: an MEG study

TJ McDermott, AS Badura-Brack, KM Becker… - Journal of Psychiatry and …, 2016 - jpn.ca
Background: Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is associated with executive functioning
deficits, including disruptions in working memory. In this study, we examined the neural …

Short-and long-term effects of cumulative finals on student learning

MM Khanna, ASB Brack… - Teaching of Psychology, 2013 - journals.sagepub.com
In two experiments, we examined the benefits of cumulative and noncumulative finals on
students’ short- and long-term course material retention. In Experiment 1, we examined results …

Attention training improves aberrant neural dynamics during working memory processing in veterans with PTSD

TJ McDermott, AS Badura-Brack, KM Becker… - Cognitive, Affective, & …, 2016 - Springer
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is associated with executive functioning deficits,
including disruptions in working memory (WM). Recent studies suggest that attention training …

Attention training normalises combat-related post-traumatic stress disorder effects on emotional Stroop performance using lexically matched word lists

MM Khanna, AS Badura-Brack, TJ McDermott… - Cognition and …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
We examined two groups of combat veterans, one with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
(n = 27) and another without PTSD (n = 16), using an emotional Stroop task (EST) with …

Decreased somatosensory activity to non-threatening touch in combat veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder

AS Badura-Brack, KM Becker, TJ McDermott… - Psychiatry Research …, 2015 - Elsevier
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a severe psychiatric disorder prevalent in combat
veterans. Previous neuroimaging studies have demonstrated that patients with PTSD exhibit …

Increases in circulating cortisol during the COVID-19 pandemic are associated with changes in perceived positive and negative affect among adolescents

…, HJ Johnson, MP Willett, AS Badura-Brack… - Research on Child and …, 2022 - Springer
The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has spread across the world and
resulted in over 5 million deaths to date, as well as countless lockdowns, disruptions to daily life, …

Cortisol changes in healthy children and adolescents during the COVID-19 pandemic

…, HJ Johnson, MP Willett, MR Frenzel, AS Badura-Brack… - Stress, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has caused massive disruptions to
daily life in the United States, closing schools and businesses and increasing physical and …

Attention bias variability and posttraumatic stress symptoms: the mediating role of emotion regulation difficulties

…, MM Khanna, Y Bar-Haim, AS Badura-Brack - Cognition and …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Growing literature has linked attention bias variability (ABV) to the experience and treatment
of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Unlike assessments of attention bias in only one …