An RCT of Dating Matters: Effects on Teen Dating Violence and Relationship Behaviors.

Introduction: Teen dating violence is a serious public health problem with few effective prevention strategies. This study examines whether the Dating Matters comprehensive prevention model, compared with a standard of care intervention, prevented negative relationship behaviors and promoted positive relationship behaviors.

Study Design: This longitudinal, cluster-RCT compared the effectiveness of Dating Matters with standard of care across middle school.

Human hippocampal and parahippocampal theta during goal-directed spatial navigation predicts performance on a virtual Morris water maze.

The hippocampus and parahippocampal cortices exhibit theta oscillations during spatial navigation in animals and humans, and in the former are thought to mediate spatial memory formation. Functional specificity of human hippocampal theta, however, is unclear. Neuromagnetic activity was recorded with a whole-head 275-channel magnetoencephalographic (MEG) system as healthy participants navigated to a hidden platform in a virtual reality Morris water maze.

Elevated fear conditioning to socially relevant unconditioned stimuli in social anxiety disorder.

Objective: Though conditioned fear has long been acknowledged as an important etiologic mechanism in social anxiety disorder, past psychophysiological experiments have found no differences in general conditionability among social anxiety patients using generally aversive but socially nonspecific unconditioned stimuli (e.g., unpleasant odors and painful pressure).

Emotion regulation and potentiated startle across affective picture and threat-of-shock paradigms.

Past studies beginning with Jackson et al. [Jackson, D.C.