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Overview

Nazanin Derakshan is affiliated with Birkbeck, University of London in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple disciplines, primarily focusing on Medicine and Psychology, with significant contributions to specialized subfields such as Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Oncology, Cognitive Neuroscience, and Clinical Psychology.

Their published work frequently appears in several peer-reviewed venues, including:

  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • Psycho-Oncology
  • Cognition & Emotion
  • Journal of Affective Disorders
  • Journal of Psychiatric Research

Nazanin Derakshan's research primarily addresses topics related to cancer-related cognitive impairment, cancer survivorship and care, as well as anxiety, depression, psychometrics, treatment, and cognitive processes. Other areas of focus include family support in illness, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, neural and behavioral psychology studies, and glioma diagnosis and treatment.

The following list highlights some of their recent publications with the year and venue of publication:

  • COVID-19 Lockdown and Its Adverse Impact on Psychological Health in Breast Cancer, 2020, Frontiers in Psychology
  • A neurocognitive account of attentional control theory: how does trait anxiety affect the brain's attentional networks?, 2022, Cognition & Emotion
  • Cognitive control training for children with anxiety and depression: A systematic review, 2022, Journal of Affective Disorders
  • COVID-19 Outbreak Effects on Job Security and Emotional Functioning Amongst Women Living With Breast Cancer, 2020, Frontiers in Psychology
  • The Impact of COVID-19 Outbreak on Emotional and Cognitive Vulnerability in Iranian Women With Breast Cancer, 2021, Frontiers in Psychology

Frequent collaborators in their published works include Elizabeth A. Grunfeld, Bethany Chapman, Jessica Swainston, Jason S. Moser, and Ernst H. W. Koster. Collaborative research with these co-authors indicates a networked approach to examine psychological and cognitive aspects in medical contexts.

Best Publications

  • Anxiety and cognitive performance: Attentional control theory.

    Michael W. Eysenck;Nazanin Derakshan;Rita Santos;Manuel G. Calvo

  • Understanding depressive rumination from a cognitive science perspective: the impaired disengagement hypothesis.

    Ernst H.W. Koster;Evi De Lissnyder;Nazanin Derakshan;Rudi De Raedt

  • Anxiety, Processing Efficiency, and Cognitive Performance New Developments from Attentional Control Theory

    Nazanin Derakshan;Michael W. Eysenck

  • New perspectives in attentional control theory

    Michael W. Eysenck;Nazanin Derakshan

  • Attentional control deficits in trait anxiety: why you see them and why you don't.

    Nick Berggren;Nazanin Derakshan

  • The combined cognitive bias hypothesis in depression.

    Jonas Everaert;Ernst H.W. Koster;Nazanin Derakshan

  • Anxiety, inhibition, efficiency, and effectiveness. An investigation using antisaccade task.

    Nazanin Derakshan;Tahereh L. Ansari;Miles Hansard;Leor Shoker

  • Trait anxiety, visuospatial processing, and working memory

    Michael W. Eysenck;Susanna Payne;Nazanin Derakshan

  • Effects of state anxiety on performance using a task-switching paradigm: an investigation of attentional control theory.

    Nazanin Derakshan;Sinéad Smyth;Michael W. Eysenck

  • Emotional information processing in repressors: The vigilance–avoidance theory

    Nazanin Derakshan;Michael W. Eysenck;Lynn B. Myers

  • The association between depressive symptoms and executive control impairments in response to emotional and non-emotional information

    Evi De Lissnyder;Ernst H. W. Koster;Nazanin Derakshan;Rudi De Raedt

  • Cognitive control interventions for depression: A systematic review of findings from training studies

    Ernst H.W. Koster;Kristof Hoorelbeke;Thomas Onraedt;Max Owens

  • Working Memory Capacity in High Trait-anxious and Repressor Groups

    Nazanin Derakshan;Michael W. Eysenck

  • Effects of anxiety on task switching: evidence from the mixed antisaccade task.

    Tahereh L. Ansari;Nazanin Derakshan;Anne Richards

  • Attentional bias to pictures of fear-relevant animals in a dot probe task.

    Ottmar V. Lipp;Nazanin Derakshan

  • The neural correlates of impaired inhibitory control in anxiety.

    Tahereh L. Ansari;Nazanin Derakshan

  • Neural correlates of emotion-attention interactions : From perception, learning, and memory to social cognition, individual differences, and training interventions

    Florin Dolcos;Yuta Katsumi;Matthew Moore;Nick Berggren

  • Interpretive biases for one's own behavior and physiology in high-trait-anxious individuals and repressors

    Nazanin Derakshan;Michael W. Eysenck

  • Training working memory to improve attentional control in anxiety: A proof-of-principle study using behavioral and electrophysiological measures.

    Berna A. Sari;Ernst H.W. Koster;Gilles Pourtois;Nazanin Derakshan

  • Snakes and Cats in the Flower Bed: Fast Detection Is Not Specific to Pictures of Fear-Relevant Animals.

    Ottmar V. Lipp;Nazanin Derakshan;Allison Maree Waters;Sandra Logies

  • Improving attention control in dysphoria through cognitive training: Transfer effects on working memory capacity and filtering efficiency

    Max Owens;Ernst H. W. Koster;Nazanin Derakshan;Nazanin Derakshan

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael W. Eysenck
Michael W. Eysenck Royal Holloway University of London
Ernst H. W. Koster
Ernst H. W. Koster Ghent University
Lynn B. Myers
Lynn B. Myers Brunel University London
Ottmar V. Lipp
Ottmar V. Lipp Curtin University
Anne Richards
Anne Richards Birkbeck, University of London
Elaine Fox
Elaine Fox University of Oxford
Rudi De Raedt
Rudi De Raedt Ghent University
Elizabeth A. Grunfeld
Elizabeth A. Grunfeld Birkbeck, University of London
Mark R. Wilson
Mark R. Wilson University of Wollongong
Richard J. McNally
Richard J. McNally Harvard University

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