Tracy Dennis-Tiwary
Tracy Dennis-Tiwary (born January 11, 1973) is an American clinical psychologist, author, health technology entrepreneur, and professor of psychology and neuroscience at Hunter College and the Graduate Center of The City University of New York. Her research explores emotion regulation and its role in mental health and illness, with a particular focus on anxiety and anxiety-related attention biases, as well as child emotional development.[1][2][3][4][5] She is known for her nuanced view of the impact of digital technology and social media on psychological well-being in youth and adults, including adjustment, relationship quality, anxiety, and emotion regulation.[6][7][8][9]
Tracy A. Dennis-Tiwary | |
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Born | Sayre, Pennsylvania, U.S. | January 11, 1973
Alma mater | University of Rochester, The Pennsylvania State University, New York University Grossman School of Medicine |
Known for | Emotion regulation and its neurocognitive basis, anxiety, digital therapeutics, attention bias, child social-emotional development |
Spouse | Vivek J. Tiwary |
Children | 2 |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Clinical Psychology, Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience |
Institutions | Hunter College of the City University of New York, Graduate Center of The City University of New York |
Website | https://www.drtracyphd.com |
Dennis-Tiwary is an early pioneer and researcher in the field of gamified digital therapeutics, including attention bias modification and gamified mobile applications for the remediation of anxiety, stress, substance abuse, and other mental and behavioral health problems.[10][11][12] Her work has been featured in numerous publications, television specials, and popular press appearances and articles. She has spoken and presented her research at the United Nations, The National Institute of Mental Health, The New York Academy of Sciences, and the Personal Democracy Forum.
Early life and education
Dennis-Tiwary was born on January 11 in Sayre, Pennsylvania. After being admitted to the Eastman School of Music of the University of Rochester as a performance major (oboe), she shifted her focus of study to graduate summa cum laude with her B.A. in psychology from the University of Rochester in 1995, where she studied approach and avoidance motivation with Andrew Elliot and child maltreatment with Dante Cicchetti at the Mt. Hope Family Center. She received her Ph.D. in clinical psychology at The Pennsylvania State University in 2001, where she specialized in the study of emotion regulation, parent-child interactions, and the cross-cultural context of emotional development and adjustment. From 2002 to 2004 she completed her postdoctoral training in intervention science at the Institute for Risk at the New York University Grossman School of Medicine.[13][14][15]
Career
Since 2004, Dennis-Tiwary has worked as a professor in the Department of Psychology at Hunter College of the City University of New York, where she also serves as the co-executive director of the Center for Health Technology, and as a member of the graduate faculty in behavioral and cognitive neuroscience as well as health psychology and clinical science at The Graduate School of the City University of New York.[16]
In 2019, she co-founded and serves as chief science officer for the digital therapeutics company Arcade Therapeutics, where the mission is to use breakthrough science to develop therapeutic mobile games that improve mental health, with a focus on anxiety- and stress-related disorders, addiction, major depressive disorder, and combinations with brain stimulation.[17][18][19][20][21][22] Her work in digital therapeutics, including her role as co-founder of Arcade Therapeutics (formerly Wise Therapeutics), was the front cover story of the November 2021 issue of StartUp Health Magazine.
In May 2022, she published the book Future Tense: Why Anxiety Is Good For You (Even Though It Feels Bad) with HarperWave, a division of HarperCollins.[23] Central to the book is a critique of the medical model of mental illness, focusing on anxiety as a prime case in point, arguing that a disease approach to anxiety fails to distinguish between normal and pathological forms of emotional suffering, and inadvertently contributes to societal increases in mental health problems.
Research
Dennis-Tiwary founded the Emotion Regulation Lab at Hunter College, where she examines biological, psychological, and social factors in the development of emotion regulation across the lifespan, its implications for mental health and illness (with a focus on anxiety and teen risk for suicide), and neurocognitive processes underlying novel treatment approaches (like attention bias modification) for anxiety, stress, addiction, and other behavioral health problems.[24]
A complete list of published research is listed in MyBibliography via the NIH's National Center for Biotechnology Information.[25]
Emotion regulation
In addition to Dennis-Tiwary's notable theoretical and methodological work on emotion regulation,[26] she has advanced the identification of clinically relevant neural signatures for emotion regulatory capacities and vulnerabilities, such as EEG asymmetry and scalp-recorded event-related potentials (ERP).[27][28] For example, Dennis-Tiwary and colleagues were the first to show that the late positive potential (LPP) varies with emotion regulation abilities in children as young as five years of age.[29][30] She further showed that these ERPs are developmentally sensitive, and predict individual differences in emotion regulation behaviors and adjustment in children[31][32][33] and adults[28] and in cognitive control capacities.[34][35]
Attention biases and attention bias modification
Dennis-Tiwary has made novel contributions to the understanding of the anxiety-related attention bias—termed the threat bias—or selective and exaggerated attention to threat. This includes developing innovative neurocognitive[36][37][38][39] and behavioral[40][41] measurement approaches, documenting the contextual sensitivity of these measures and validating their predictive associations with treatment response and the severity of anxiety symptoms over time.
Dennis-Tiwary is also a leading researcher in the study of attention bias modification (ABM), a class of computerized cognitive training protocols that are designed to remediate attention biases underlying mental and behavioral health problems. Extending ABM to problems with alcohol consumption, Dennis-Tiwary and colleagues[42] found that ABM for alcohol-related attention biases reduced alcohol craving in problem drinkers after a single session. She created and clinically validated the first gamified mobile ABM app for reducing anxiety and stress called Personal Zen.[43][44][45][46][47] Personal Zen is regularly included in media round-ups of the field’s top anxiety-relieving mobile apps.[48][49][50][51]
Social media and social-emotional adjustment
Dennis-Tiwary has examined the impact of social media on emotional functioning, including the development of a validated questionnaire, the Social Media and Communication Questionnaire (SMCQ).[52][53] In other research, Dennis-Tiwary and colleagues at the Pennsylvania State University developed a novel modification of the classic Still Face paradigm to model and examine the impact of parental withdrawal via mobile devices.[54] Findings suggested that consistent parental withdrawal during mobile device use could have a negative social-emotional impact on developing children and the parent-child relationship. This study was recreated in 2019 for a network TV special report for ABC entitled, "ScreenTime: Diane Sawyer Reporting."[55]
Media, awards, and honors
Dennis-Tiwary’s work has been featured in numerous publications, popular press articles, podcasts, documentaries, and television specials including: CBS News,[56] The Guardian,[57] the Telegraph,[58] NBC New York,[59] Scientific American,[60] the Washington Post,[61] Fast Company,[62] Vox,[49] NPR,[48] and How-To Academy.[63] She has been interviewed widely as an expert on anxiety, technology, digital therapeutics, and youth development, including on NPR-Morning Edition,[64] Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard,[65] KCRW Life Examined,[66] and KERA Think.[67] She has also authored several prominent opinion pieces, including the New York Times Opinion essay entitled, “Taking Away the Phones Won’t Solve Our Teenagers’ Problems,”[68] and the Saturday Essay for the Wall Street Journal entitled, “In Praise of Anxiety.”[69] Since 2017, Dennis-Tiwary has written the column “More Than a Feeling” for Psychology Today.[70] Her work was the subject of the 2013 documentary Changing Minds at Concord High[71] and she appeared in the 2021 documentary I Am Gen Z.[72]
She is an internationally recognized speaker, having spoken and presented her research at the United Nations,[73] the National Institute of Mental Health, the New York Academy of Sciences, the Personal Democracy Forum,[74] and the Rubin Museum Brainwave Festival.[75]
Dennis-Tiwary has served on the editorial boards of Affective Neuroscience since 2019[76] and the Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology since 2017. She is a fellow of the Association for Psychological Science (APS) as well as a member of the Society for Research in Child Development, the Society for Cognitive Neuroscience, the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, and the Anxiety and Depression Association of America.
Since 2020, Dennis-Tiwary has served as a research advisor for the Global Day of Unplugging[77] and the Hunter College Food Policy Center,[78] as well as a media consultant for ABC News and NBC/Universal from 2017 to 2021. She served as a consultant to the NYC Public School System from 2017 to 2019 and the New York Chapter of the National Alliance on Mental Illness in 2020.[79]
Bibliography
- Future Tense: Why Anxiety is Good for You (Even Though It Feels Bad) (New York: Harper Collins, 2022) ISBN 9780063062122
Selected journal articles
- Myruski, S., Cho, H., Bikson, M., & Dennis-Tiwary, T.A. (2021). Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) augments the effects of gamified, mobile attention bias modification, Frontiers in Neuroergonomics, 2.[80]
- Dennis-Tiwary, T.A., Denefrio, S., Myruski, S. & Roy, A. (2019). Heterogeneity of the anxiety-related attention bias: A review and working model for future research. Clinical Psychological Science, 7(5), 879–899.[81]
- Myruski, S., Gulyayeva, O. Birk, S., Perez-Edgar, K., Buss, K.A., & Dennis-Tiwary, T.A. (2017). Digital disruption?: Maternal mobile device use is related to infant social-emotional functioning. Developmental Science.[82]
- Dennis-Tiwary, T.A., Denefrio, S., & Gelber, S. (2017). Salutary effects of an attention bias modification mobile application on biobehavioral measures of stress and anxiety during pregnancy. Biological Psychology, 127, 148–156.[83]
- Luehring-Jones, P., Louis, C., Erblich, J., & Dennis-Tiwary, T. (2017). A single session of attentional bias modification reduces alcohol craving and implicit measures of alcohol bias in young adult drinkers. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 41(12), 2207–2216.[84]
- Dennis, T.A., & O'Toole, L. (2014). Mental health on the go: Effects of a gamified attention bias modification mobile application in trait anxious adults. Clinical Psychological Science, 2(2), 1–15.[85]
- Dennis, T.A., Buss, K.A., Hastings, P.D. (Eds.; 2012). Physiological measures of emotion from a developmental perspective: State of the science. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 77(2).[86]
- Dennis, T.A., & Hajcak, G. (2009). The late positive potential: a neurophysiological marker for emotion regulation in children. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 50, 1373–1383.[87]
- Cole, P.M., Martin, S.E., & Dennis, T.A. (2004). Emotion regulation as a scientific construct: Challenges and directions for child development research. Child Development, 75, 317–333.[88]
Selected popular media
- “In Praise of Anxiety,” Saturday Essay for the Wall Street Journal [69]
- "Taking Away the Phones Won't Solve Our Teenagers' Problems," New York Times[89]
- Interview with Dax Shepard and Monica Padman, Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard,[65]
- "A new book argues that anxiety is good for you, even though it feels bad" Author Interview with A Martinez, NPR-Morning Edition,[64]
- "Anxiety can be good for you," The Guardian[57]
- "Why anxiety can be good for you – even if it feels terrible," the Telegraph[58]
- "Screen Time Has Gone from Sin to Survival Tool,"the Washington Post[61]
- "More Than a Feeling: The Art and Science of Making Anxiety Our Ally," Psychology Today[90]
- "Screens are lifesavers right now, but they're still relationship wreckers," Fast Company[91]
- "I am GenZ," Documentary, 2021[92]
- "Changing Minds at Concord High," Documentary, 2013[93]
References
- Dennis-Tiwary, Tracy A.; Roy, Amy Krain; Denefrio, Samantha; Myruski, Sarah (2019-09-01). "Heterogeneity of the Anxiety-Related Attention Bias: A Review and Working Model for Future Research". Clinical Psychological Science. 7 (5): 879–899. doi:10.1177/2167702619838474. ISSN 2167-7026. PMC 7983558. PMID 33758680.
- Gaudino, Linda. "Life After Lockdown: The Social Changes of COVID & What's Next". NBC New York. Retrieved 2021-12-08.
- "Bars: The Addictive Relationship With Xanax & Hip Hop | Complex News Presents". Complex. Retrieved 2021-12-08.
- Tracy Dennis Tiwary | Calming The Politics of Fear: Technology and the Anxious Brain, retrieved 2021-12-08
- "Do Kids Feel Stronger Emotions Than Adults?". Gizmodo. 10 September 2018. Retrieved 2021-12-08.
- Myruski, Sarah; Gulyayeva, Olga; Birk, Samantha; Pérez-Edgar, Koraly; Buss, Kristin A.; Dennis-Tiwary, Tracy A. (2018). "Digital disruption? Maternal mobile device use is related to infant social-emotional functioning". Developmental Science. 21 (4): e12610. doi:10.1111/desc.12610. ISSN 1467-7687. PMC 5866735. PMID 28944600.
- "Perspective | 'Screen time' has gone from sin to survival tool". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2021-12-08.
- "Social Media Has Not Destroyed a Generation". Scientific American. Retrieved 2021-12-08.
- Dennis-Tiwary, Tracy. "Screens are keeping us connected now – but they're still disruptive to in-person communication". The Conversation. Retrieved 2021-12-08.
- "Personal Zen Scientifically Reduces Anxiety in 25 Minutes". Lifehacker. 22 March 2014. Retrieved 2021-12-08.
- Singh, Maanvi (2014-03-26). "Therapists' Apps Aim To Help With Mental Health Issues". NPR. Retrieved 2021-12-08.
- Nazish, Noma. "10 Apps To Protect And Boost Your Mental Health During The Pandemic". Forbes. Retrieved 2021-12-08.
- "Wise Therapeutics and Soterix Medical Jointly Announce Positive Results of Study Combining Gamified Digital Therapeutics with Neurostimulation Device" (Press release). Wise Therapeutics – via PR Newswire.
- Samuel, Sigal (March 12, 2020). "Anxiety apps: Can you lessen anxiety by playing a game on your phone?". Vox. Retrieved October 5, 2021.
- "Home". Personal Zen. September 17, 2019. Retrieved October 5, 2021.
- "CHTW Home". Center for Health Technology Hunter College. Retrieved 2021-12-08.
- "About Personal Zen". Personal Zen. Retrieved 2021-12-08.
- "Wise Therapeutics". wisedtx.com. Retrieved 2021-12-08.
- Charvet, Leigh; George, Allan; Cho, Hyein; Krupp, Lauren B.; Dennis-Tiwary, Tracy A. (2021-07-28). "Mobile Attention Bias Modification Training Is a Digital Health Solution for Managing Distress in Multiple Sclerosis: A Pilot Study in Pediatric Onset". Frontiers in Neurology. 12: 719090. doi:10.3389/fneur.2021.719090. ISSN 1664-2295. PMC 8355356. PMID 34393986.
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- PhD, Forest Ray (16 August 2021). "'Personal Zen' Mobile App Helps to Ease Anxiety in Pediatric-onset MS". Multiple Sclerosis News Today. Retrieved 2021-12-08.
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- Cole, Pamela M.; Martin, Sarah E.; Dennis, Tracy A. (March 2004). "Emotion Regulation as a Scientific Construct: Methodological Challenges and Directions for Child Development Research". Child Development. 75 (2): 317–333. doi:10.1111/j.1467-8624.2004.00673.x. ISSN 0009-3920. PMID 15056186.
- "ABSTRACT". Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development. 77 (2): vii. June 2012. doi:10.1111/j.1540-5834.2011.00653.x.
- Dennis, Tracy A.; Solomon, Beylul (2010-12-01). "Frontal EEG and emotion regulation: Electrocortical activity in response to emotional film clips is associated with reduced mood induction and attention interference effects". Biological Psychology. 85 (3): 456–464. doi:10.1016/j.biopsycho.2010.09.008. ISSN 0301-0511. PMC 2976487. PMID 20863872.
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- "Neural correlates of cognitive reappraisal in children: An ERP study" (PDF). Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience.
- "The late positive potential predicts emotion regulation strategy use in school-aged children concurrently and two years later" (PDF). Developmental Science.
- Dennis, Tracy A.; Malone, Melville M.; Chen, Chao-Cheng (2009-01-08). "Emotional Face Processing and Emotion Regulation in Children: An ERP Study". Developmental Neuropsychology. 34 (1): 85–102. doi:10.1080/87565640802564887. ISSN 8756-5641. PMC 2654398. PMID 19142768.
- Myruski, Sarah; Bonanno, George A.; Gulyayeva, Olga; Egan, Laura J.; Dennis-Tiwary, Tracy A. (2017-10-01). "Neurocognitive assessment of emotional context sensitivity". Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience. 17 (5): 1058–1071. doi:10.3758/s13415-017-0533-9. ISSN 1531-135X. PMC 5718166. PMID 28828734.
- Buss, Kristin A.; Dennis, Tracy A.; Brooker, Rebecca J.; Sippel, Lauren M. (2011-04-01). "An ERP study of conflict monitoring in 4–8-year old children: Associations with temperament". Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. 1 (2): 131–140. doi:10.1016/j.dcn.2010.12.003. ISSN 1878-9293. PMC 3111917. PMID 21666879.
- Brooker, Rebecca J.; Buss, Kristin A.; Dennis, Tracy A. (2011-04-01). "Error-monitoring brain activity is associated with affective behaviors in young children". Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. 1 (2): 141–152. doi:10.1016/j.dcn.2010.12.002. ISSN 1878-9293. PMC 3092557. PMID 21572941.
- Dennis, Tracy A.; Chen, Chao-Cheng (2007). "Neurophysiological mechanisms in the emotional modulation of attention: The interplay between threat sensitivity and attentional control". Biological Psychology. 76 (1–2): 1–10. doi:10.1016/j.biopsycho.2007.05.001. PMC 2745961. PMID 17582673.
- Dennis, Tracy A.; Chen, Chao-Cheng (2009). "Trait anxiety and conflict monitoring following threat: An ERP study". Psychophysiology. 46 (1): 122–131. doi:10.1111/j.1469-8986.2008.00758.x. PMC 2701368. PMID 19055504.
- Egan, Laura J.; Dennis-Tiwary, Tracy A. (2018-08-01). "Dynamic measures of anxiety-related threat bias: Links to stress reactivity". Motivation and Emotion. 42 (4): 546–554. doi:10.1007/s11031-018-9674-6. ISSN 1573-6644. PMC 6135252. PMID 30220752.
- Dennis-Tiwary, Tracy A.; Egan, Laura J.; Babkirk, Sarah; Denefrio, Samantha (2016-02-01). "For whom the bell tolls: Neurocognitive individual differences in the acute stress-reduction effects of an attention bias modification game for anxiety". Behaviour Research and Therapy. 77: 105–117. doi:10.1016/j.brat.2015.12.008. ISSN 0005-7967. PMC 4758525. PMID 26745621.
- Dennis, Tracy A.; Chen, Chao-Cheng; McCandliss, Bruce D. (2008). "Threat-related attentional biases: an analysis of three attention systems". Depression and Anxiety. 25 (6): E1–E10. doi:10.1002/da.20308. ISSN 1520-6394. PMC 2662699. PMID 17565734.
- O'Toole, Laura J.; DeCicco, Jennifer M.; Hong, Melanie; Dennis, Tracy A. (2011). "The impact of task-irrelevant emotional stimuli on attention in three domains". Emotion. 11 (6): 1322–1330. doi:10.1037/a0024369. ISSN 1931-1516. PMID 21707156.
- Luehring-Jones, Peter; Louis, Courtney; Dennis-Tiwary, Tracy A.; Erblich, Joel (2017). "A Single Session of Attentional Bias Modification Reduces Alcohol Craving and Implicit Measures of Alcohol Bias in Young Adult Drinkers". Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research. 41 (12): 2207–2216. doi:10.1111/acer.13520. ISSN 1530-0277. PMC 5711540. PMID 28992377.
- Dennis-Tiwary, Tracy A.; Egan, Laura J.; Babkirk, Sarah; Denefrio, Samantha (2016). "For whom the bell tolls: Neurocognitive individual differences in the acute stress-reduction effects of an attention bias modification game for anxiety". Behaviour Research and Therapy. 77: 105–117. doi:10.1016/j.brat.2015.12.008. PMC 4758525. PMID 26745621.
- Dennis-Tiwary, Tracy A.; Denefrio, Samantha; Gelber, Shari (2017-07-01). "Salutary effects of an attention bias modification mobile application on biobehavioral measures of stress and anxiety during pregnancy". Biological Psychology. 127: 148–156. doi:10.1016/j.biopsycho.2017.05.003. ISSN 0301-0511. PMC 5593765. PMID 28478138.
- Charvet, Leigh; George, Allan; Cho, Hyein; Krupp, Lauren B.; Dennis-Tiwary, Tracy A. (2021). "Mobile Attention Bias Modification Training Is a Digital Health Solution for Managing Distress in Multiple Sclerosis: A Pilot Study in Pediatric Onset". Frontiers in Neurology. 12: 1267. doi:10.3389/fneur.2021.719090. ISSN 1664-2295. PMC 8355356. PMID 34393986.
- Myruski, Sarah; Cho, Hyein; Bikson, Marom; Dennis-Tiwary, Tracy A. (2021-05-19). "Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) Augments the Effects of Gamified, Mobile Attention Bias Modification". Frontiers in Neuroergonomics. 2. doi:10.3389/fnrgo.2021.652162. ISSN 2673-6195.
- Dennis, Tracy A.; O’Toole, Laura J. (September 2014). "Mental Health on the Go: Effects of a Gamified Attention-Bias Modification Mobile Application in Trait-Anxious Adults". Clinical Psychological Science. 2 (5): 576–590. doi:10.1177/2167702614522228. ISSN 2167-7026. PMC 4447237. PMID 26029490.
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- Pippin, Chelsey. "14 Apps To Help You Manage Your Anxiety". BuzzFeed. Retrieved 2022-08-24.
- Myruski, Sarah; Quintero, Jean M.; Denefrio, Samantha; Dennis-Tiwary, Tracy A. (2020-12-01). "Through a Screen Darkly: Use of Computer-Mediated Communication Predicts Emotional Functioning". Psychological Reports. 123 (6): 2305–2332. doi:10.1177/0033294119859779. ISSN 0033-2941. PMID 31264919. S2CID 195773144.
- Babkirk, Sarah; Luehring-Jones, Peter; Dennis-Tiwary, Tracy A. (November 2016). "Computer-mediated communication preferences predict biobehavioral measures of social-emotional functioning". Social Neuroscience. 11 (6): 637–651. doi:10.1080/17470919.2015.1123181. ISSN 1747-0919. PMC 5156569. PMID 26613269.
- Myruski, Sarah; Gulyayeva, Olga; Birk, Samantha; Pérez-Edgar, Koraly; Buss, Kristin A.; Dennis-Tiwary, Tracy A. (2018). "Digital disruption? Maternal mobile device use is related to infant social-emotional functioning". Developmental Science. 21 (4): e12610. doi:10.1111/desc.12610. ISSN 1467-7687. PMC 5866735. PMID 28944600.
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- Myruski, Sarah; Gulyayeva, Olga; Birk, Samantha; Pérez-Edgar, Koraly; Buss, Kristin A.; Dennis-Tiwary, Tracy A. (October 5, 2018). "Digital disruption? Maternal mobile device use is related to infant social-emotional functioning". Developmental Science. 21 (4): e12610. doi:10.1111/desc.12610. PMC 5866735. PMID 28944600.
- Dennis-Tiwary, Tracy A.; Denefrio, Samantha; Gelber, Shari (2017). "Salutary effects of an attention bias modification mobile application on biobehavioral measures of stress and anxiety during pregnancy". Biological Psychology. 127: 148–156. doi:10.1016/j.biopsycho.2017.05.003. PMC 5593765. PMID 28478138.
- Luehring-Jones, Peter; Louis, Courtney; Dennis-Tiwary, Tracy A.; Erblich, Joel (October 5, 2017). "A Single Session of Attentional Bias Modification Reduces Alcohol Craving and Implicit Measures of Alcohol Bias in Young Adult Drinkers". Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research. 41 (12): 2207–2216. doi:10.1111/acer.13520. PMC 5711540. PMID 28992377.
- Dennis, Tracy A.; O'Toole, Laura J. (September 1, 2014). "Mental Health on the Go: Effects of a Gamified Attention-Bias Modification Mobile Application in Trait-Anxious Adults". Clinical Psychological Science. 2 (5): 576–590. doi:10.1177/2167702614522228. PMC 4447237. PMID 26029490 – via SAGE Journals.
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