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Overview

David M. Fresco is affiliated with the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor in the United States. Their research spans primarily the fields of psychology and medicine, with a total of 67 publications in psychology and 22 in medicine.

Their work focuses extensively on subfields such as clinical psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, cardiology and cardiovascular medicine, cognitive neuroscience, and applied psychology. This range reflects diverse research interests within both behavioral and health-related disciplines.

Key topics in David M. Fresco's research include anxiety, depression, psychometrics, treatment approaches, and cognitive processes. Additional major focus areas are mindfulness and compassion interventions, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, mental health research topics, digital mental health interventions, sleep and related disorders, as well as heart rate variability and autonomic control.

Frequently published venues for their work include:

  • Mindfulness
  • American Journal of Ophthalmology
  • Behaviour Research and Therapy
  • Journal of Affective Disorders
  • Chronic Stress

Among their recent papers are:

  • "Facial emotion recognition in major depressive disorder: A meta-analytic review," 2021, Journal of Affective Disorders
  • "Emotion Regulation Therapy and Its Potential Role in the Treatment of Chronic Stress-Related Pathology Across Disorders," 2020, Chronic Stress
  • "Association between decentering and reductions in relapse/recurrence in mindfulness-based cognitive therapy for depression in adults: A randomized controlled trial," 2022, Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology
  • "DSM-5 insomnia disorder in pregnancy: associations with depression, suicidal ideation, and cognitive and somatic arousal, and identifying clinical cutoffs for detection," 2022, SLEEP Advances
  • "Inter-brain Synchronization in the Practice of Tibetan Monastic Debate," 2020, Mindfulness

David M. Fresco has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including Douglas S. Mennin, Shirley M. Moore, Mia Skytte O'Toole, Kelly L. Wierenga, and Michael Moore. These collaborations reflect ongoing partnerships in clinical psychology and related research areas.

Best Publications

  • Preliminary evidence for an emotion dysregulation model of generalized anxiety disorder.

    Douglas S. Mennin;Richard G. Heimberg;Cynthia L. Turk;David M. Fresco

  • The Liebowitz Social Anxiety Scale: a comparison of the psychometric properties of self-report and clinician-administered formats

    D. M. Fresco;M. E. Coles;R. G. Heimberg;M. R. Liebowitz

  • Initial psychometric properties of the experiences questionnaire: validation of a self-report measure of decentering.

    David M. Fresco;Michael T. Moore;Manfred H.M. van Dulmen;Zindel V. Segal

  • Delineating Components of Emotion and its Dysregulation in Anxiety and Mood Psychopathology

    Douglas S. Mennin;Robert M. Holaway;David M. Fresco;Michael T. Moore

  • Applying an Emotion Regulation Framework to Integrative Approaches to Generalized Anxiety Disorder

    Douglas S. Mennin;Richard G. Heimberg;Cynthia L. Turk;David M. Fresco

  • Distinct and Overlapping Features of Rumination and Worry: The Relationship of Cognitive Production to Negative Affective States

    David M. Fresco;Ann N. Frankel;Douglas S. Mennin;Cynthia L. Turk

  • Empirical validation and psychometric evaluation of the Brief Fear of Negative Evaluation Scale in patients with social anxiety disorder.

    Justin W. Weeks;Richard G. Heimberg;David M. Fresco;Trevor A. Hart

  • Emotion Dysregulation in Generalized Anxiety Disorder: A Comparison with Social Anxiety Disorder

    Cynthia L. Turk;Richard G. Heimberg;Jane A. Luterek;Douglas S. Mennin

  • Decentering and Related Constructs: A Critical Review and Metacognitive Processes Model.

    Amit Bernstein;Yuval Hadash;Yael Lichtash;Galia Tanay

  • Screening for social anxiety disorder in the clinical setting: using the Liebowitz Social Anxiety Scale.

    Douglas S Mennin;David M Fresco;Richard G Heimberg;Franklin R Schneier

  • Development and examination of the social appearance anxiety scale.

    Trevor A. Hart;David B. Flora;Sarah A. Palyo;David M. Fresco

  • Screening for social anxiety disorder with the self-report version of the Liebowitz Social Anxiety Scale.

    Nina K. Rytwinski;David M. Fresco;Richard G. Heimberg;Meredith E. Coles

  • Depressive realism: A meta-analytic review

    Michael T. Moore;David M. Fresco

  • Relationship of posttreatment decentering and cognitive reactivity to relapse in major depression.

    David M. Fresco;Zindel V. Segal;Tom Buis;Sydney Kennedy

  • The Internet: home to a severe population of individuals with social anxiety disorder?

    Brigette A Erwin;Cynthia L Turk;Richard G Heimberg;David M Fresco

  • Evaluation of the clinical global impression scale among individuals with social anxiety disorder.

    T. I. Zaider;Richard G. Heimberg;D. M. Fresco;F. R. Schneier

  • Using the Penn State Worry Questionnaire to identify individuals with generalized anxiety disorder: a receiver operating characteristic analysis.

    David M Fresco;Douglas S Mennin;Richard G Heimberg;Cynthia L Turk

  • Cognitive styles and life events interact to predict bipolar and unipolar symptomatology.

    Noreen A. Reilly-Harrington;Lauren B. Alloy;David M. Fresco;Wayne G. Whitehouse

  • Social anxiety, alcohol expectancies, and self-efficacy as predictors of heavy drinking in college students

    Donna M. Gilles;Cynthia L. Turk;David M. Fresco

  • Emotion regulation therapy.

    DS Mennin;DM Fresco;JJ In

Frequent Co-Authors

Douglas S. Mennin
Douglas S. Mennin Columbia University
Richard G. Heimberg
Richard G. Heimberg Temple University
Lauren B. Alloy
Lauren B. Alloy Temple University
Jonathan P. Stange
Jonathan P. Stange University of Southern California
Franklin R. Schneier
Franklin R. Schneier Columbia University
Zindel V. Segal
Zindel V. Segal University of Toronto
Allison J. Applebaum
Allison J. Applebaum Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Meredith E. Coles
Meredith E. Coles Binghamton University
Manfred H. M. van Dulmen
Manfred H. M. van Dulmen Kent State University
Murray B. Stein
Murray B. Stein University of California, San Diego

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