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Research Area:

• Clinical - Adult Psychopathology

Does Dr. Fresco plan to recruit a doctoral student for the next incoming class?

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Research Interests:

I direct the Psychopathology and Emotion Regulation Laboratory (PERL) and am a Co-Director of the Kent Electrophysiological Neuroscience Laboratory (KENL). My program of research adopts an affective science perspective to the study of generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) and major depressive disorder (MDD).  Working at the interface of cognitive behavioral and emotion regulation approaches, I conduct survey, experimental, and treatment research to examine factors associated with major depressive disorder (MDD) and generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) including metacognitive factors (e.g., decentering, rumination, worry), functional neuroimaging (fMRI & EEG), peripheral psychophysiology, and serum markers (e.g., inflammation, neurodegeneration). Another focus of our lab is the development of treatments informed by affective and contemplative neuroscience findings that incorporate mindfulness meditation and other practices derived from Buddhist mental training exercises into Western psychosocial treatments.  Presently, I am PI of grant entitled, "” (1R01HL119977),  Co-I on grants entitled, "(1P30NR015326), “” (1R21HD095099), “” (1R61AT009867), Co-Sponsor of a grant entitled “” (1F31AT010299), and MPI of a pending grant entitled “Emotion Regulation in Distress Disorders: Elucidating the Role of Cognitive Processes and Person-Situation Fit in the Laboratory and Daily Life” (1R01MH118218).

Lab Site:

Courses Frequently Taught

• Abnormal Psychology (undergraduate)

• Emotion (undergraduate)

• Introduction to Psychotherapy (graduate)

• Cognitive Behavior Therapy (graduate)

• Clinical Supervision (graduate)

Publications:

• Hoge, E.A., Bui, E., Goetter, E., Robinaugh, D.J., Ojserkis, R.A., Fresco, D.M., Simon, N. (2015). Change in Decentering Mediates Improvement in Anxiety in Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction for Generalized Anxiety Disorder, , 39, 228-235. NIHMSID # 635177
• Mennin, D. S. & Fresco, D. M. (2015) Advancing Emotion Regulation Perspectives on Psychopathology: The Challenge of Distress Disorders, , 26, 80-92, DOI: 10.1080/1047840X.2015.969624
• Bernstein, A., Hadash, Y., Lichtash, Y., Tanay, G., *Shepherd, K., & Fresco, D. M. (in press). Decentering and Related Constructs: A Critical Review and Meta-Cognitive Processes Model. .
• Mennin, D. S., Fresco, D. M., Ritter, M., & Heimberg, R. G., (in press). An Open Trial of Emotion Regulation Therapy For Generalized Anxiety Disorder with Co-Occurring depression. .
• Mennin, D. S. & Fresco, D. M. (2014). Emotion Regulation Therapy. (pp. 469-490). In J. J. Gross (Ed.) New York: Guilford Press.
• Hughes, J. W., Fresco, D. M., Myerscough, R., van Dulmen, M., Carlson, L. E., & Josephson, R. (2013). Randomized Controlled Trial of Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction for Prehypertension. , 721-728.
• Mennin, D. S. & Fresco, D. M. (2013). What, me worry and ruminate about DSM-5 and RDoC?: The importance of targeting negative self-referential processing. , 259-268.
• Mennin, D. S., Ellard, K. K., Fresco, D. M., & Gross, J. J. (2013). Emphasizing commonalities of cognitive-behavioral therapies within a broadening field of intervention science. , 44, 234-248.
• *Moore, M. T. & Fresco, D. M. (2012). Depressive Realism: A Meta-Analytic Review. , 1-14.
• Fresco, D. M., Segal, Z. V., Buis, T., & Kennedy, S. (2007). Relationship of post treatment decentering and cognitive reactivity following an emotion evocation challenge to relapse of major depressive disorder. , 75, 447-455.
• Fresco, D. M., *Moore, M. T., van Dulmen, M., Segal, Z. V., Teasdale, J. D., Ma, D., & Williams, J. M. G. (2007). Initial psychometric properties of the Experiences Questionnaire: A self-report survey of decentering. , 38, 234-246.