Attentional patterns as emotion regulation strategies during the anticipation of repetitive emotional scenes: an eye-tracker study.

As difficulties in managing the anticipation of situations is one of the characteristics of emotional problems, the study of regulatory strategies during anticipatory period anticipation is important. In the present study, attentional patterns during the anticipation period were studied. The ability of those attentional patterns to regulate mood after the event's occurrence was analyzed.

Attentional biases in dysphoria when happy and sad faces are simultaneously presented.

Background And Objective: Difficulties to engage attention to positive stimuli and to disengage attention from negative stimuli are typically found in depression. Yet, most of the evidence supporting these attentional biases comes from experimental paradigms in which emotional information (e.g.

Trauma and posttraumatic stress disorder in Spanish public mental health system clients with severe psychiatric conditions: Clinical and demographic correlates.

Objective: Compared with the general population, those with severe psychiatric conditions have a substantially higher likelihood of trauma exposure, increased probability of developing posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and more severe consequences if trauma is left untreated. Nevertheless, identification of trauma/PTSD continues to be a neglected mental health system priority. In Spain, few investigations have examined the prevalence of trauma, particularly in persons with severe psychiatric conditions.

CBT and positive psychology interventions for clinical depression promote healthy attentional biases: An eye-tracking study.

Background: Although there is a growing interest in the role of attentional biases in depression, there are no studies assessing changes in these biases after psychotherapeutic interventions.

Methods: We used a validated eye-tracking procedure to assess pre-post therapy changes in attentional biases toward emotional information (i.e.