Browsing University of Galway Theses (PhD Theses) by Subject "Anxiety"
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Individual differences in the impact of attentional bias training on cardiovascular responses to stress
(2013-03-28)Introduction. The present research examines the effect of threat-related attentional bias - the tendency to direct attention towards information in the environment that is threatening or negative -on anxiety responses to ... -
Investigating the role of the endogenous cannabinoid system in emotional modulation of pain: neurochemical and molecular mechanisms
(2012-03-24)Abstract Pain represents a major unmet clinical need and affects a large number of individuals worldwide. The modulation of pain by cognitive and emotional factors is now widely recognised. Increased understanding of the ... -
Regulation of fear, anxiety and cognition in the presence or absence of pain by peroxisome proliferator-activated receptors
(NUI Galway, 2019-06-07)Fear/anxiety and pain modulate one another reciprocally, but the neurobiological mechanisms that underlie this interaction are not completely understood. Fear-conditioned analgesia (FCA) is pain suppression upon exposure ...