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Showing 1 to 20 of 82 for “"transdiagnostic"”.
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Transdiagnostic Approaches to Neurodevelopment
… The work presented in this thesis applies a transdiagnostic framework to large developmental datasets to advance our understanding of neurodevelopmental diversity. Three empirical studies were conducted with a cohort of children with a range of diagnosed and undiagnosed needs. The first study …
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Recognizing addictive disorders through transdiagnostic assessment
… However, few self-report instruments adopt a transdiagnostic approach, which would be best positioned to answer questions about comorbidity as well as other related phenomenon, such as discontinuation of one type of behavior and initiation of another. The current work aimed to develop a …
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Delay Discounting as a Transdiagnostic Neural Phenotype
… measures for brain-behavior phenotyping in transdiagnostic research. Delay discounting involves choosing between a smaller sooner reward and a larger reward available after a longer delay and has been thought to capture impulsivity and self-control. In Chapter 1, I use a meta-analytic …
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TRANSDIAGNOSTIC PROCESSES OF COGNITIVE VULNERABILITIES IN EMOTIONAL PSYCHOLOGICAL CONDITIONS
… Recent literature has expounded the presence of transdiagnostic cognitive processes and a shared latent internalising factor in emotional psychological conditions, exerting significant bearing on the proposed shift from categorical diagnostic nosology to transdiagnostic perspectives. To date, …
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Neural Mechanisms and Cognitive Outcomes Of Electroconvulsive Therapy: A Transdiagnostic Approach
Introduction. Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is an effective treatment for severe mental health disorders (e.g., depression, psychosis). However, cognitive side effects and neural mechanisms underlying its therapeutic effect are not well understood. This study aims to probe the mechanisms of ECT …
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Transactional effects of depression in transdiagnostic group cognitive behavioral therapy for anxiety
… outcomes compared to an anxiety diagnosis alone. Transdiagnostic treatments present a promising option to improve both anxiety and depression by targeting shared risks. Research using transdiagnostic protocols suggests that comorbid and simple cases improve at comparable rates, and that secondary …
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Reality Resists Classification: A Transdiagnostic, Network-Based Approach to Behavioural and Neural Variation in Childhood
… cognitive neuroscience by taking a *transdiagnostic* approach to studying the associations between neurology, cognition, and behaviour. We endeavoured to address these three questions: 1. Do the topological features of structural brain network connectivity differentiate children with …
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Effect of brief transdiagnostic cognitive behavioural group therapy on anxiety and depressive symptoms in pregnant women
… was to evaluate the effectiveness of a six-week transdiagnostic cognitive behavioural group therapy (TCBGT) adapted to the specific needs of pregnant women. Method: Data from 174 pregnant women, 20 to 47 years of age (M = 30), who had attended the TCBGT in 2018-2020 was used in the study. The …
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Let’s Talk: An Exploration of a Transdiagnostic Peer Mentorship Program for Adolescents with Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a chronic autoimmune disease often diagnosed during adolescence. IBD negatively impacts all aspects of health-related quality of life, resulting in physical, emotional, social, school, and work functioning challenges. Providing care to adolescents during the …
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Transdiagnostic approach to language and cognition in the logopenic variant of primary progressive aphasia and Alzheimer’s disease
… of progressive aphasias and present exemplars of transdiagnostic approaches to improve clinical characterisation of language-based dementias. The clinical motivation behind Chapter 2 was the wide use of picture description tasks across disciplines but the lack of a validated tool to base the …
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Examining Change in Health Anxiety Symptoms Resulting From Transdiagnostic, Internet-Delivered Cognitive Behaviour Theapy: The Impact of Therapist Support
… depression, and health anxiety. Alternatively, transdiagnostic ICBT does not target one specific disorder, rather broad areas observable across different mental health disorders, which results in administering the same treatment protocol to individuals regardless of their primary diagnosis. …
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A Randomized Non-Inferiority Trial of Technician-Guided and Self-Guided Transdiagnostic Internet-Delivered Cognitive Behaviour Therapy for Cancer Survivors: Making Treatment Scalable
… (n = 86) were randomly assigned to receive a transdiagnostic ICBT program (Wellbeing After Cancer) that was either guided by a technician or self-guided. Participants completed measures of anxiety, depression, and fear of cancer recurrence pre-treatment, post-treatment, and four-weeks …
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Examining processes in the relationship between narrative identity and psychological functioning
… terms of diagnostic symptoms. As a result, the transdiagnostic psychological processes underpinning the relationship remain largely unexplored. Additionally, recent research proposes that the relationship between narrative identity and psychological functioning may be reciprocal, but research …
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The Efficacy of Aerobic Exercise and Resistance Training for Anxiety-Related Disorders and Constructs: A Randomized Controlled Trial
… similarities have fostered the development of transdiagnostic treatments that can effectively target a relatively wide array of anxiety-related psychopathological concerns and can also be widely and efficiently disseminated to individuals in need treatment. There is empirical evidence to …
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The rejection of one’s own weaknesses and internalizing psychopathology: Exploring self-insecurity’s links with unpleasant repetitive thinking and depression
… investigating self-insecurity as a potential transdiagnostic risk factor for psychopathology, especially internalizing psychopathology. Study 1 explored the link between self-insecurity and unpleasant repetitive thinking, an transdiagnostic process that appears to cause and perpetuate …
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Behavioural disinhibition in the syndromes associated with frontotemporal lobar degeneration
… thesis has two main aims. First, to develop a transdiagnostic approach to FTLD syndromes to facilitate a better understanding of aetiology, pathophysiology and in due course their symptomatic treatment. Second, to use this approach to test the hypothesis that glutamate and GABA deficits are …
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Preconception Stress, Affect-Biased Attention, and Negative Affectivity: Assessing Pathways and Early Markers of Psychopathological Risk in Infancy and Childhood
… influence negative affectivity, a robust and transdiagnostic risk factor for later psychiatric symptoms. The present dissertation accomplished this goal by completing two independent studies, each of which are presented in the format of standalone journal articles. Study one focused on …
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Feasibility and effectiveness of MATCH-ADTC on ninth-grade students presenting symptoms of depression, and anxiety
… healthy coping techniques. MATCH-ADTC is a transdiagnostic intervention grounded in cognitive-behavioral therapy and designed for children ages 6 to 15. The current study investigates the feasibility and effectiveness of MATCH-ADTC intervention on 15 ninth grade students that included both …
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Psychological and Neural Processing of Social Risk and Discrepancy in Major Depressive Disorder
… and suggesting a role for perfectionism as a transdiagnostic sensitivity to such discrepancies. Suggestions for future research are discussed, including increased utilisation of neuroeconomic games, particularly in relation to assessing social function as a transdiagnostic marker. Overall, the …
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Personalized Feedback for Smokers with Elevated Anxiety Sensitivity
… to address this need is to focus on underlying transdiagnostic processes that capture negative mood states and are related to smoking. Anxiety sensitivity (AS), the tendency to fear anxiety-related sensations, is a core transdiagnostic vulnerability factor for the etiology and maintenance of …
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