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  1. Anxiety sensitivity and intolerance of uncertainty facilitate associations between generalized Pavlovian fear and maladaptive avoidance decisions.

    Article • Journal of Abnormal Psychology, March 2019, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Shmuel Lissek

  2. Symptoms of Posttraumatic Stress Rather Than Mild Traumatic Brain Injury Best Account for Altered Emotional Responses in Military Veterans

    Article • Journal of Traumatic Stress, February 2018, Wiley

    Shmuel Lissek

  3. 4.41 A Psychophysiology Study of Heat Pain Conditioning and Instrumental Avoidance in Anxious and Healthy Children

    Article • Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, October 2017, Elsevier

    Shmuel Lissek

  4. Behavioral pattern separation and its link to the neural mechanisms of fear generalization

    Article • Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, September 2017, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Shmuel Lissek

  5. Distraction/Suppression and Distress Endurance diminish the extent to which generalized conditioned fear is associated with maladaptive behavioral avoidance

    Article • Behaviour Research and Therapy, September 2017, Elsevier

    Shmuel Lissek

  6. Neural Substrates of Overgeneralized Conditioned Fear in PTSD

    Article • American Journal of Psychiatry, February 2017, American Psychiatric Association

    Shmuel Lissek

  7. Learning models of PTSD: Theoretical accounts and psychobiological evidence

    Article • International Journal of Psychophysiology, December 2015, Elsevier

    Shmuel Lissek

  8. UPDATED META-ANALYSIS OF CLASSICAL FEAR CONDITIONING IN THE ANXIETY DISORDERS

    Article • Depression and Anxiety, February 2015, Wiley

    Shmuel Lissek

  9. Generalized Anxiety Disorder Is Associated With Overgeneralization of Classically Conditioned Fear

    Article • Biological Psychiatry, June 2014, Elsevier

    Shmuel Lissek

  10. Maladaptive behavioral consequences of conditioned fear-generalization: A pronounced, yet sparsely studied, feature of anxiety pathology

    Article • Behaviour Research and Therapy, June 2014, Elsevier

    Shmuel Lissek

  11. Response to Learned Threat: An fMRI Study in Adolescent and Adult Anxiety

    Article • American Journal of Psychiatry, October 2013, American Psychiatric Association

    Shmuel Lissek

  12. Neural substrates of classically conditioned fear-generalization in humans: a parametric fMRI study

    Article • Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, June 2013, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Shmuel Lissek

  13. Generalization of Conditioned Fear and Obsessive-Compulsive Traits

    Article • Journal of Psychology & Psychotherapy, January 2013, OMICS Publishing Group

    Shmuel Lissek

  14. Trait Anxiety and Fear Responses to Safety Cues: Stimulus Generalization or Sensitization?

    Article • Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment, April 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Shmuel Lissek

  15. TOWARD AN ACCOUNT OF CLINICAL ANXIETY PREDICATED ON BASIC, NEURALLY MAPPED MECHANISMS OF PAVLOVIAN FEAR-LEARNING: THE CASE FOR CONDITIONED OVERGENERALIZATION

    Article • Depression and Anxiety, March 2012, Wiley

    Shmuel Lissek

  16. Learning Models of PTSD

    Article • February 2012, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Shmuel Lissek

  17. The development of fear learning and generalization in 8-13 year-olds

    Article • Developmental Psychobiology, November 2011, Wiley

    Shmuel Lissek

  18. How do social fears in adolescence develop? Fear conditioning shapes attention orienting to social threat cues

    Article • Cognition & Emotion, September 2011, Taylor & Francis

    Shmuel Lissek

  19. Anxiety overrides the blocking effects of high perceptual load on amygdala reactivity to threat-related distractors

    Article • Neuropsychologia, April 2011, Elsevier

    Shmuel Lissek

  20. Attention Bias Modification Treatment: A Meta-Analysis Toward the Establishment of Novel Treatment for Anxiety

    Article • Biological Psychiatry, December 2010, Elsevier

    Shmuel Lissek

  21. Development of anxiety: the role of threat appraisal and fear learning

    Article • Depression and Anxiety, August 2010, Wiley

    Shmuel Lissek

  22. Overgeneralization of Conditioned Fear in the Anxiety Disorders

    Article • Zeitschrift für Psychologie / Journal of Psychology, January 2010, Hogrefe Publishing Group

    Shmuel Lissek

  23. Overgeneralization of Conditioned Fear as a Pathogenic Marker of Panic Disorder

    Article • American Journal of Psychiatry, January 2010, American Psychiatric Association

    Shmuel Lissek

  24. Increased Anxiety During Anticipation of Unpredictable Aversive Stimuli in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder but not in Generalized Anxiety Disorder

    Article • Biological Psychiatry, July 2009, Elsevier

    Shmuel Lissek

  25. Startle Response in Behaviorally Inhibited Adolescents With a Lifetime Occurrence of Anxiety Disorders

    Article • Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, June 2009, Elsevier

    Shmuel Lissek, Koraly Perez-Edgar

  26. Impaired discriminative fear-conditioning resulting from elevated fear responding to learned safety cues among individuals with panic disorder

    Article • Behaviour Research and Therapy, February 2009, Elsevier

    Shmuel Lissek

  27. Role of acetylcholine in negative patterning in turtles (Chrysemys picta).

    Article • Behavioral Neuroscience, January 2009, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Shmuel Lissek

  28. Increased Anxiety During Anticipation of Unpredictable But Not Predictable Aversive Stimuli as a Psychophysiologic Marker of Panic Disorder

    Article • American Journal of Psychiatry, July 2008, American Psychiatric Association

    Shmuel Lissek

  29. Generalization of conditioned fear-potentiated startle in humans: Experimental validation and clinical relevance

    Article • Behaviour Research and Therapy, May 2008, Elsevier

    Shmuel Lissek

  30. Fear Conditioning in Adolescents With Anxiety Disorders: Results From a Novel Experimental Paradigm

    Article • Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, January 2008, Elsevier

    Shmuel Lissek

  31. Elevated Fear Conditioning to Socially Relevant Unconditioned Stimuli in Social Anxiety Disorder

    Article • American Journal of Psychiatry, January 2008, American Psychiatric Association

    Shmuel Lissek

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

    Article • Biological Psychology, September 2007, Elsevier

    Shmuel Lissek

  33. Neural responses to auditory stimulus deviance under threat of electric shock revealed by spatially-filtered magnetoencephalography

    Article • NeuroImage, August 2007, Elsevier

    Shmuel Lissek

  34. Reduction of Trace but Not Delay Eyeblink Conditioning in Panic Disorder

    Article • American Journal of Psychiatry, February 2007, American Psychiatric Association

    Shmuel Lissek

  35. The Benzodiazepine Alprazolam Dissociates Contextual Fear from Cued Fear in Humans as Assessed by Fear-potentiated Startle

    Article • Biological Psychiatry, October 2006, Elsevier

    Shmuel Lissek

  36. The strong situation: A potential impediment to studying the psychobiology and pharmacology of anxiety disorders

    Article • Biological Psychology, June 2006, Elsevier

    Shmuel Lissek

  37. Major Depression Predicts an Increase in Long-Term Body Weight Variability in Young Adults

    Article • Obesity Research, November 2005, Wiley

    Shmuel Lissek

  38. Classical fear conditioning in the anxiety disorders: a meta-analysis

    Article • Behaviour Research and Therapy, November 2005, Elsevier

    Shmuel Lissek

  39. Face-Emotion Processing in Offspring at Risk for Panic Disorder

    Article • Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, July 2005, Elsevier

    Shmuel Lissek

  40. Airpuff startle probes: an efficacious and less aversive alternative to white-noise

    Article • Biological Psychology, March 2005, Elsevier

    Shmuel Lissek

  41. Sensation Seeking and the Aversive Motivational System.

    Article • Emotion, January 2005, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Shmuel Lissek

  42. Face-memory and emotion: associations with major depression in children and adolescents

    Article • Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, October 2004, Wiley

    Shmuel Lissek

  43. Fear conditioning in virtual reality contexts: a new tool for the study of anxiety

    Article • Biological Psychiatry, June 2004, Elsevier

    Shmuel Lissek

  44. Anxious Responses to Predictable and Unpredictable Aversive Events.

    Article • Behavioral Neuroscience, January 2004, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Shmuel Lissek

  45. Sensation seeking and startle modulation by physically threatening images

    Article • Biological Psychology, May 2003, Elsevier

    Shmuel Lissek

  46. Generalization of Classically Conditioned Fear: A Central Yet Understudied Marker of PTSD

    Article • American Psychological Association (APA)

    Shmuel Lissek