Why do human phobias last for months or years when such behavior should undergo extinction? This failure of extinction or persistence of self-defeating behavior of human disorders was labeled by Mowrer as the neurotic paradox. The paradox is cited by an ever-increasing number of critics who challenge any laboratory-based learning model of human psychopathology. Laboratory research, of course, o...

We present the first version of a corpus annotated for psychiatric disorders and their etiological factors. The paper describes the choice of text, annotated entities and events/relations as well as the annotation scheme and procedure applied. The corpus is featuring a selection of focus psychiatric disorders including depressive disorder, anxiety disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, phobic...

AIMS This study evaluated the primary/secondary distinction among substance misusers according to comorbid mental disorders. METHODS A consecutive sample (n = 287) of DSM-IV substance dependents from public treatment facilities in two counties in Norway were assessed by the Composite International Diagnostic Interview. According to the debut of the first independent mental disorder, patients ...

Background: The countermeasures used to mitigate the COVID-19 pandemic might have impacted mental health of populations around world. Methods: We data from Brazilian Longitudinal Study Health (ELSA-Brasil), a prospective cohort, characterize participants between 2018 (wave-3) and 2020 (wave-COVID). Clinical Interview Scheduled-Revised (CIS-R), validated questionnaire, was assess prevalence comm...

Social phobia has been associated with an attentional bias for angry faces. This study aimed at further characterising this attentional bias by investigating reaction times, heart rates, and ERPs while social phobics, spider phobics, and controls identified either the colour or the emotional quality of angry, happy, or neutral schematic faces. The emotional expression of angry faces did not int...

Only a few studies investigated whether animal phobics exhibit attentional biases in contexts where no phobic stimuli are present. Among these, recent studies provided evidence for a bias toward facial expressions of fear and disgust in animal phobics. Such findings may be due to the fact that these expressions could signal the presence of a phobic object in the surroundings. To test this hypot...