Anticipatory reasoning engine is an indispensable component for computing anticipatory systems. In practical computing anticipatory systems, the efficiency of anticipatory reasoning engine is a key issue to satisfy the real-time requirements from applications. FreeEnCal: a forward reasoning engine for general-purpose purpose is a hopeful candidate for anticipatory reasoning engines. However, th...

Title of Thesis: THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SOCIAL ANXIETY AND ALCOHOL USE IN A COLLEGE STUDENT SAMPLE Edwin L. Bercaw, Master of Arts, 2004 Thesis directed by: Professor Samuel M. Turner Department of Psychology Some individuals with social phobia frequently use alcohol, a behavior that may often result in the alleviation of anticipatory or performance anxiety in social situations. Reinforcement...

BACKGROUND Carbon dioxide (CO(2)) sensitivity is postulated to be a familial risk marker of panic disorder (PD). Exaggerated responses to CO(2) inhalation have been reported in adults with PD and their unaffected adult relatives, as well as in clinic-referred children with anxiety disorders. OBJECTIVE To test in a family-based design whether CO(2) hypersensitivity is a familial risk marker fo...

It is well known that preparing for and taking high-stakes exams has a significant influence on the emotional and physiological wellbeing of exam-takers, but few studies have investigated the resulting cognitive changes. The current study examined the effect of examination-induced academic stress on anticipation in information processing. Anticipation was indexed using the contingent negative v...

Appraisal refers to the evaluation of the meaning of emotional stimuli and is considered causal in the generation of an emotional response. Cognitive neuroscience has paid little attention to a theoretical distinction between low-level appraisal, considered to be automatic and preattentive, and high-level appraisal that requires attentional and working memory resources. To disentangle low-level...

The nocebo effect is a phenomenon that is opposite to the placebo effect, whereby expectation of a negative outcome may lead to the worsening of a symptom. Thus far, its study has been limited by ethical constraints, particularly in patients, as a nocebo procedure is per se stressful and anxiogenic. It basically consists in delivering verbal suggestions of negative outcomes so that the subject ...

OBJECTIVE Catastrophising is a repetitive cognitive process related to sleep disturbance in adult insomnia patients. More recently catastrophising has been associated with increased sleep disturbances in community samples of children and adolescents, with this association mediated by anxiety and depression. However, there currently is no evidence of these processes outside of community samples;...