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Does emotional Stroop interference differ based on stimulus valence in patients with PTSD, major depression, and anxiety disorders?
Does emotional Stroop interference differ based on stimulus valence in patients with PTSD, major depression, and anxiety disorders?
Patients with PTSD, MDD, and anxiety disorders show specific attentional biases to diagnosis-relevant and mood-congruent stimuli on the emotional Stroop task.
Supports attentional bias assessment in cognitive therapies for PTSD, MDD, and anxiety; extends meta-analytic evidence on valence-specific interference.
These findings highlight the importance of diagnosis-relevant information on attentional processing in all three clinical populations, posttraumatic stress disorder, major depressive disorder and anxiety disorders. Further, the impact of generally negative stimuli but not generally positive stimuli in major depressive disorder and anxiety disorders indicate impaired attentional bias for mood-congruent stimuli but not for general stimuli. Finally, it remains to be studied whether the influence of generally positive stimuli in posttraumatic stress disorder indicate that positive stimuli are perceived as PTSD related.
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