Table 2.
Evidence for efficient processing of emotion-relevant information.
| Study | Diagnosis | Task | Evidence for efficient processing? |
|---|---|---|---|
| Agoraphobia | |||
| No studies (to our knowledge). | |||
| Generalized Anxiety Disorder | |||
| Mathews & MacLeod, 1986 | GAD | DT (DL + RTT) | No |
| Obsessive Compulsive Disorder | |||
| Olatunji, Ciesielski, & Zald, 2011 | OCD | RSVP | No |
| Eastwood et al., 2005 | SP | VST | Yes |
| PD | Yes* | ||
| OCD | No* | ||
| Panic Disorder | |||
| Beck, Stanley, Averill, Baldwin, & Deagle, 1992 | PD | DT (Read words with a RTT) | No |
| Wenzel, 2006 | PD | DT | No |
| SP | (DL with a RTT) | No | |
| see also (above): | |||
| Eastwood et al., 2005 | |||
| Post-traumatic Stress Disorder | |||
| No studies (to our knowledge). | |||
| Social Phobia | |||
| see (above): | |||
| Eastwood et al., 2005 | |||
| Wenzel, 2006 | |||
| Specific Phobia | |||
| No studies (to our knowledge). | |||
| MDD | |||
| McCabe & Gotlib, 1993 | DEP | DT (DL +RTT) | No |
| Suslow et al., 2004 | DEP | VST | No |
| DEP (with anxiety) | No | ||
Note. DEP = Depression/Major Depressive Disorder; GAD = Generalized Anxiety Disorder; OCD = Obsessive Compulsive Disorder; PD = Panic Disorder; SP = Social Phobia; DL = Dichotic Listening; DT = Dual Task; RTT = Reaction Time Task; RSVP = Rapid Serial Visual Presentation Task; VST = Visual Search Task
*
stimuli were not specific to row's disorder.