2016
An investigation of mental imagery in bipolar disorder: Exploring “the mind's eye”
Di Simplicio M, Renner F, Blackwell S, Mitchell H, Stratford H, Watson P, Myers N, Nobre A, Lau‐Zhu A, Holmes E. An investigation of mental imagery in bipolar disorder: Exploring “the mind's eye”. Bipolar Disorders 2016, 18: 669-683. PMID: 27995690, PMCID: PMC5299482, DOI: 10.1111/bdi.12453.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsNon-clinical controlsEmotional mental imageryBipolar disorderMental imageryAnxiety disordersExperimental tasksAssociation with affective labilityCognitive stagesMeasures of mental imageryPicture-word taskClinical control groupPremorbid IQTransdiagnostic markerAffective labilityEmotional psychopathologyProspective imageryUnipolar depressionDepressed individualsInterpretation biasNon-emotionalEmotional difficultiesImagery differencesImagery useBD groupSelf-involvement
2015
Imagining a brighter future: The effect of positive imagery training on mood, prospective mental imagery and emotional bias in older adults
Murphy S, O’Donoghue M, Drazich E, Blackwell S, Nobre A, Holmes E. Imagining a brighter future: The effect of positive imagery training on mood, prospective mental imagery and emotional bias in older adults. Psychiatry Research 2015, 230: 36-43. PMID: 26235478, PMCID: PMC4593863, DOI: 10.1016/j.psychres.2015.07.059.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsCognitive bias modificationBias modificationOlder adultsInterpretation biasPositive affectCognitive trainingPost-trainingProspective mental imageryNegative interpretation biasBoost positive affectComputer-based cognitive trainingDecreased negative affectCognitive health outcomesOne-month follow-upProspective imageryNegative affectTrait anxietyEmotional biasMental imageryPositive imageryHealth outcomesControl trainingImagery trainingTraining groupAffect