Selective information processing and anxiety problems

焦虑问题每年给澳大利亚造成超过10亿美元的损失，并影响到16%的澳大利亚人口。申请人和其他人之前的研究最近已经确定，选择性信息处理的某些模式会导致对焦虑的脆弱性增加。本程序将有助于区分两个特定类别的加工选择性对焦虑脆弱性的两个关键维度的功能贡献。它的设计目的是产生新的认知技术，不仅能够预测，而且能够减轻对压力的焦虑反应的倾向，以及随后随时间持续的焦虑。

Anxiety problems cost Australia over $1 billion per annum, and affect up to 16% of some Australian populations. Previous research by the applicants, and others, recently has established that certain patterns of selective information processing causally underpin elevated vulnerability to anxiety. The present program will serve to distinguish the functional contributions made by two specific classes of processing selectivity to two key dimensions of anxiety vulnerability. It is designed to produce novel cognitive technologies capable not only of predicting, but also of attenuating, both the tendency to experience anxiety reactions to stress, and the subsequent persistent of anxiety over time.