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Sensation Seeking and Behavior Disorders

Archives of General Psychiatry, 1988
To the Editor.— Cloninger 1 has recently presented an interesting proposal for classifications of personality variants based on monoamine functions. One of his three postulated dimensions of personality is termed novelty seeking . A reading of the description of this dimension suggests that it is practically identical to the trait dimension termed ...
Marvin Zuckerman
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Sensational interests and sensation seeking in mentally disordered offenders

Personality and Individual Differences, 2001
Abstract Violent and sensational interests are reported in the background history of some mentally disordered offenders. As sensation-seeking accounts for the drive for intellectual and physical excitement, it was thought that this trait would also underlie an interest in sensational material.
Egan, Vincent, Charlesworth, Philip, Richardson, C., Blair, M., McMurran, M.   +4 more
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No superior perception of hyperventilatory sensations in panic disorder

Behaviour Research and Therapy, 1998
It has been argued that panic disorder patients may be more skilled at detecting changes in actual physiology than others. The present study investigated if panic patients are better than controls in perceiving sensations produced by light hyperventilation.
S, Kroeze, M A, van den Hout
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Selective Attention for Hyperventilatory Sensations in Panic Disorder

Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 2000
According to cognitive theories, panic patients are assumed to display selective attention for feared bodily sensations. To date there has only been indirect evidence for this based on performance on reaction time tasks such as the modified Stroop task and the dot probe detection task.
S, Kroeze, M A, van Den Hout
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Somatic sensations, anxiety, and control in panic disorder

Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 1994
This case study of a woman with panic disorder with agoraphobia illustrates the relationships among somatic sensations, anxiety, and the subjective sense of control, and of these three factors to panic disorder. Helping the client alter her caffeine intake and dietary habits led to a significant reduction in panic attacks, but had less impact on her ...
M S, Salzer, H, Berenbaum
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Detection of somatic sensations in panic disorder

Behaviour Research and Therapy, 1994
Twenty-four panic disorder patients and 25 nonclinical subjects underwent double-breath inhalations of 5, 10, and 20% carbon dioxide (CO2) or room air. All subjects were blind to inhalation content and were required to guess if the inhalation contained CO2.
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Pain Syndromes and Disorders of Sensation

2007
Although routine clinical neurological examination generally does not reveal any abnormality of sensation in persons with Parkinson’s disease (PD), subjective sensory symptoms are quite frequently present, and objective abnormalities of proprioceptive function and sensorimotor integration have been demonstrated with sophisticated testing.
Blair Ford, Ronald F. Pfeiffer
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Sensation seeking and bipolar affective disorder

Personality and Individual Differences, 1992
Abstract Sensation seeking is a stable trait which is reflected in certain behavioral characteristics, such as risk-taking activities of many kinds. Several lines of research have suggested a relationship between sensation seeking and bipolar affective disorder. The Hypomania scale of the MMPI correlates with the Sensation Seeking Scale. Additionally,
Christopher Cronin, Marvin Zuckerman
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Reactivity to Sensations in Borderline Personality Disorder: A Preliminary Study

Journal of Personality Disorders, 2011
Individuals with borderline personality disorder (BPD) are widely considered to have problems with emotional reactivity. However, the specific kinds of stimuli that are associated with heightened emotional reactivity in BPD have not been well characterized.
M Zachary, Rosenthal, Roianne, Ahn, Paul J, Geiger   +2 more
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Bronchial Provocation in the Study of Sensations Associated with Disordered Breathing

Clinical Science, 1977
1. Lung volumes, airway resistance and flow/volume curves were measured in ten asthmatic subjects at times when tightness in the chest was just sensed (threshold symptom). 2. These measurements when the threshold symptom was induced by methacholine inhalation were compared with those when a similar symptom occurred spontaneously, in the ...
A R, Rubinfeld, M C, Pain
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