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The relationship between anxiety sensitivity and obsessive-compulsive symptom dimensions.

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Regression analyses indicated that AS was predictive of OC symptoms even after controlling for general distress and obsessive beliefs, and these results provide preliminary evidence that AS plays a role in OC symptoms.
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This article is published in Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry.The article was published on 2012-09-01. It has received 68 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Anxiety sensitivity & Anxiety.

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Emotion and internal experience in Obsessive Compulsive Disorder: reviewing the role of alexithymia, anxiety sensitivity and distress tolerance.

TL;DR: There is evidence that all three constructs that capture different aspects of understanding, appraisal and tolerance of internal states in OCD are elevated in clinical cases compared to controls, but there is no evidence that any of the three shows specificity for OCD over other anxiety disorders.
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Amygdala activation and symptom dimensions in obsessive compulsive disorder

TL;DR: The severity of aggression/checking and sexual/religious symptom dimensions were significantly associated with heightened amygdala activation in those with OCD when responding to fearful faces, whereas no such correlations were seen for other symptom dimensions.
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Recent Advances in Research on Cognition and Emotion in OCD: A Review

TL;DR: Research that has empirically validated the theoretical underpinnings of the cognitive model, altered maladaptive cognitive processes through state-of-the-art experimental procedures, refined the understanding of the relationship between obsessive beliefs and OC symptoms and examined how underlying traits relate to the development and maintenance of OCD are reviewed.
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Anxiety Sensitivity, Experiential Avoidance, and Mindfulness Among Younger and Older Adults Age Differences in Risk Factors for Anxiety Symptoms

TL;DR: Age-related differences in anxiety sensitivity, experiential avoidance, and mindfulness appear to be significant correlates for anxiety-related symptoms in younger and older adults as well as their relationships.
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Obsessive compulsive disorder and anxiety sensitivity: Identification of specific relations among symptom dimensions

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the relationship between AS subfactors and OCD symptom domains (checking, ordering, neutralizing, washing, and obsessing) and found that AS was significantly associated with OCD symptom severity even after controlling for anxiety and MDD diagnoses.
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The CES-D Scale: A Self-Report Depression Scale for Research in the General Population

TL;DR: The CES-D scale as discussed by the authors is a short self-report scale designed to measure depressive symptomatology in the general population, which has been used in household interview surveys and in psychiatric settings.
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Anxiety sensitivity, anxiety frequency and the prediction of fearfulness.

TL;DR: In predicting the development of fears, and possibly other anxiety disorders, it may be more important to know what the person thinks will happen as a result of becoming anxious than how often the person actually experiences anxiety.
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A cognitive approach to panic.

TL;DR: The proposed cognitive model of panic is described, which is consistent with the nature of the cognitive disturbance in panic patients, the perceived sequence of events in an attack, the occurrence of ‘spontaneous’ attacks, the role of hyperventilation in attacks,The effects of sodium lactate and the literature on psychological and pharmacological treatments.
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