Accortt, E. E., Bismark, A., Schneider, T. R., & J., J. (2011). Diagnosing premenstrual dysphoric disorder: The reliability of a structured clinical interview. Archives of Women's Mental Health, 14(3), 265-267.
PMID: 21336934;Abstract:
Premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD), a diagnosis included for further study in the DSM-IV-TR (American Psychiatric Association 2000), lacks a structured interview. The reliability of a Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV-TR-Defined PMDD (SCID-PMDD) was assessed with 96 participants who spanned the full range of premenstrual problems. All individual SCID-PMDD items had high inter-rater agreement, and the overall reliability of diagnosis was high (kappa=0.96). The SCID-PMDD provides a structured, sensitive, and reliable measure of the symptoms and impairment criteria for PMDD. © 2011 Springer-Verlag.
Allen, J. J., Iacono, W. G., Laravuso, J. J., & Dunn, L. A. (1995). An Event-Related Potential Investigation of Posthypnotic Recognition Amnesia. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 104(3), 421-430.
PMID: 7673565;Abstract:
Forty-two individuals selected for high hypnotizability or for low hypnotizability were taught lists of words during hypnosis and assessed for recognition following hypnosis using event-related potential (ERP) procedures, both before and after the cue to reverse amnesia. A subgroup of low-hypnotizable participants were asked to simulate hypnotic behavior. All participants had larger late positive component (LPC) amplitudes to learned than to unlearned words, regardless of whether amnesia was reported. The highly hypnotizable participants who reported recognition amnesia, however, had significant changes in attention-related (P1 and N1) and recognition-related (N400 and LPC) ERP component amplitudes as a function of whether amnesia was reported. These data suggest that posthypnotic amnesia may involve alterations in the processes of attention, selection, and accessibility. © 1995 American Psychological Association.
Allen, J., Bismark, A. W., Hajcak, G., Whitworth, N. M., & Allen, J. J. (2013). The role of outcome expectations in the generation of the feedback-related negativity. Psychophysiology, 50(2).
The feedback-related negativity (FRN) is thought to index activity within the midbrain dopaminergic reward-learning system, with larger FRN magnitudes observed when outcomes are worse than expected. This view holds that the FRN is an index of neural activity coding for prediction errors, and reflects activity that can be used to adaptively alter future performance. Untested to date, however, is a key prediction of this view: the FRN should not appear in response to negative outcomes when outcome expectations are not allowed to develop. The current study tests this assumption by eliciting FRNs to win and loss feedback in conditions of participant choice, participant observation of computer choice, and, critically, simple presentation of win or loss feedback in the absence of a predictive choice cue. Whereas FRNs were observed in each of the conditions in which there was time for an expectation to develop, no FRN was observed in conditions without sufficient time for the development of an expectation. These results provide empirical support for an untested but central tenet of the reinforcement learning account of the genesis of the FRN.
Bourassa, K. J., Allen, J. J., Mehl, M. R., & Sbarra, D. A. (2017). Impact of Narrative Expressive Writing on Heart Rate, Heart Rate Variability, and Blood Pressure After Marital Separation. Psychosomatic medicine, 79(6), 697--705.
J., J., & Dveirin, K. (2003). Mechanism of wart disappearance: An alternative hypothesis. Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, 157(5), 490-.
