2024
Reviewing explore/exploit decision-making as a transdiagnostic target for psychosis, depression, and anxiety
Lloyd A, Roiser J, Skeen S, Freeman Z, Badalova A, Agunbiade A, Busakhwe C, DeFlorio C, Marcu A, Pirie H, Saleh R, Snyder T, Fearon P, Viding E. Reviewing explore/exploit decision-making as a transdiagnostic target for psychosis, depression, and anxiety. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience 2024, 24: 793-815. PMID: 38653937, PMCID: PMC11390819, DOI: 10.3758/s13415-024-01186-9.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchTransdiagnostic targetAssociated with more explorationAssociated with psychopathologyReduced explorationPsychosisLongitudinal designAnxietyDepressionWell-poweredEveryday decisionsDecision-making contextDecision-makingIndividualsPsychopathologyCognitionDisordersSystematic searchEvidenceBiasInsufficient evidenceContext of decision-makingInterventionAcademic databasesContextStudyCommentary: Health anxiety in youth during ‘COVID’ – some thoughts prompted by Rask et al. (2024)
Sonuga‐Barke E, Fearon P. Commentary: Health anxiety in youth during ‘COVID’ – some thoughts prompted by Rask et al. (2024). Journal Of Child Psychology And Psychiatry 2024, 65: 431-434. PMID: 38415840, DOI: 10.1111/jcpp.13973.Peer-Reviewed Original Research
2022
Adapting and testing a brief intervention to reduce maternal anxiety during pregnancy (ACORN): report of a feasibility randomized controlled trial
O’Mahen H, Ramchandani P, King D, Lee-Carbon L, Wilkinson E, Thompson-Booth C, Ericksen J, Milgrom J, Dunkley-Bent J, Halligan S, Fearon P. Adapting and testing a brief intervention to reduce maternal anxiety during pregnancy (ACORN): report of a feasibility randomized controlled trial. BMC Psychiatry 2022, 22: 129. PMID: 35177019, PMCID: PMC8851863, DOI: 10.1186/s12888-022-03737-1.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsPregnant individualsBrief interventionPrimary care servicesPublic health benefitsNew brief interventionLarge-scale trialsMaternal prenatal anxietyUsual careIntervention armPrenatal clinicsLevel of anxietyMaternal anxietyTreatment groupsMaternity servicesCare servicesElevated symptomsPrenatal anxietyFurther evaluationMore sessionsHealth benefitsInterventionPregnancyMindfulness exercisesGroup sessionsAnxiety
2021
Assigning the right credit to the wrong action: compulsivity in the general population is associated with augmented outcome-irrelevant value-based learning
Bullmore E, Dolan R, Goodyer I, Fonagy P, Jones P, Moutoussis M, Hauser T, Neufeld S, Romero-Garcia R, Clair M, Vértes P, Whitaker K, Inkster B, Prabhu G, Ooi C, Toseeb U, Widmer B, Bhatti J, Villis L, Alrumaithi A, Birt S, Bowler A, Cleridou K, Dadabhoy H, Davies E, Firkins A, Granville S, Harding E, Hopkins A, Isaacs D, King J, Kokorikou D, Maurice C, McIntosh C, Memarzia J, Mills H, O’Donnell C, Pantaleone S, Scott J, Kiddle B, Polek E, Fearon P, Suckling J, van Harmelen A, Kievit R, Chamberlain S. Assigning the right credit to the wrong action: compulsivity in the general population is associated with augmented outcome-irrelevant value-based learning. Translational Psychiatry 2021, 11: 564. PMID: 34741013, PMCID: PMC8571313, DOI: 10.1038/s41398-021-01642-x.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsCompulsive behaviorsCompulsive tendenciesValue-based learningSelf-reported compulsivityReinforcement learning tasksSchizotypal tendenciesStimulus locationCompulsivityFuture eventsWrong actionsLearning processFuture researchPositive relationshipSpecific actsCurrent studyTaskLearningIndividualsGeneral populationCausal relationshipHealthy individualsAnxietyTendencyBehaviorBeliefs
2016
Predicting treatment outcome in psychological treatment services by identifying latent profiles of patients
Saunders R, Cape J, Fearon P, Pilling S. Predicting treatment outcome in psychological treatment services by identifying latent profiles of patients. Journal Of Affective Disorders 2016, 197: 107-115. PMID: 26991365, DOI: 10.1016/j.jad.2016.03.011.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsPsychological treatment servicesLatent profile analysisPsychological treatmentLatent profilesStandardized symptom measuresPsychological interventionsPsychological therapiesProfile analysisSymptom measuresSymptom domainsTreatment servicesTreatment outcomesSuitable interventionsLevel of attritionLongitudinal analysisBasic demographic informationInterventionDemographic informationAnxietyDifferent intensitiesTreatment responseOutcomesDepressionRoutine careDifferent groups