Cognitive Biases in Health and Psychiatric Disorders: Neurophysiological Foundations

Cognitive Biases in Health and Psychiatric Disorders: Neurophysiological Foundations focuses on the neurophysiological basis of biases in attention, interpretation, expectancy and memory. Each chapter includes a review of each specific bias, including both positive and negative information in both healthy individuals and psychiatric populations. This book provides readers with major theories, methods used in investigating biases, brain regions associated with the related bias, and autonomic responses to specific biases. Its end goal is to provide a comprehensive overview of the neural, autonomic and cognitive mechanisms related to processing biases.

Outlines neurophysiological research on diverse types of information processing bias, including attention bias, expectancy bias, interpretation bias, and memory biasDiscusses both normal and pathological forms of each cognitive biasesProvides specific examples on how to translate research on cognitive biases to clinical applications

1. Intro/Overview 2. Attention bias: Positive 3. Attention bias: Negative 4. Expectancy bias: Positive 5. Expectancy bias: Negative 6. Interpretation bias: Positive 7. Interpretation bias: Negative 8. Memory bias: Positive 9. Memory bias: Negative 10. Perceptual biases 11. Links between biases 1 12. Links between biases 2 13. Clinical applications 14. Everyday-life applications 15. Personality 16. Development 17. Neural networks underlying top-down and bottom-up processing in cognitive biases