Alterations in autobiographical memory for a blast event in Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom veterans with mild traumatic brain injury.

Objective: Although loss of consciousness associated with moderate or severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) is thought to interfere with encoding of the TBI event, little is known about the effects of mild TBI (mTBI), which typically involves only transient disruption in consciousness.

Method: Blast-exposed Afghanistan and Iraq War veterans were asked to recall the blast event. Participants were stratified based on whether the blast was associated with probable mTBI (n = 50) or not (n = 25).

Specificity of effects of cognitive behavior therapy on coping, acceptance, and distress tolerance in a randomized controlled trial for smoking cessation.

Objective: Although there is extensive evidence of the efficacy of cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), it is less certain what potential mechanisms of change are specifically affected by CBT interventions. This study was intended to test the specific effects of CBT on compensatory coping skills, acceptance, and distress tolerance or persistence.

Method: Using data from a randomized controlled trial of 8-session group CBT and a time-matched comparison condition for cigarette smokers, we evaluated CBT effects on compensatory coping skills, self-rated acceptance and behavioral markers of persistence and distress tolerance.

Depression vulnerability moderates the effects of cognitive behavior therapy in a randomized controlled trial for smoking cessation.

Several clinical trials have tested the hypothesis that smoking cessation treatments with a mood management component derived from cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) for depression would be specifically effective for depression-vulnerable smokers, with mixed results. This trial addressed methodological concerns with some of the previous studies to clarify whether depression vulnerability does in fact moderate CBT smoking cessation outcome. The study compared 8-session group CBT with a time-matched comparison group condition in a sample of 100 cigarette smokers randomized to treatment condition.