Abstract Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) is an affective disorder with sustained negative
affect and difficulties experiencing positive affect as its hallmark features. Previous work also …

A large body of research has demonstrated that affective disorders are characterized by
attentional biases for emotional stimuli. However, this research relies heavily on manual …

Objective: Determine whether a novel psychosocial treatment for positive affect improves
clinical status and reward sensitivity more than a form of cognitive behavioral therapy that …

Anhedonia, or loss of interest or pleasure in usual activities, is characteristic of depression,
some types of anxiety, as well as substance abuse and schizophrenia. Anhedonia is a …

Sustained negative affect and difficulties experiencing positive affect are hallmark features of
major depressive disorder. Recent research has suggested that difficulties in emotion …

Cognitive theories of depression posit that people's thoughts, inferences, attitudes, and
interpretations, and the way in which they attend to and recall information, can increase their …

This review integrates Fredrickson's broaden-and-build theory of positive emotions with
advances in affective neuroscience regarding plasticity in the neural circuitry of emotions to …

BACKGROUND:: Attention Bias Modification Treatment (ABMT) is a newly emerging,
promising treatment for anxiety disorders. Although recent randomized control trials (RCTs) …

Conceptualizations of emotion regulation have led to the identification of cognitive and
behavioral regulatory abnormalities that contribute to the development and maintenance of …

Everyone experiences stress at one time or another–from major events such as the death of
a loved one, to more minor stressors such as financial difficulties. Not surprisingly, exposure …