Professor Nazanin Derakhshan
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Overview
Overview
Biography
- 2012 - current. Professor of Experimental Psychopathology. Department of Psychological Sciences, Birkbeck University of London, UK.
- 2009 – 2011 Reader in Psychology. Department of Psychological Sciences, Birkbeck (Maternity Leave 2010)
- 2006 – 2008 Senior Lecturer in Psychology. Department of Psychological Sciences, Birkbeck Univ. of London
- 2004 – 2006 Lecturer in Psychology. Department of Psychological Sciences, Birkbeck Univ. of London
- 2000 – 2004 Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Fellow in Experimental Psychopathology. University of Leeds, Leeds, UK. (I was the second person in the UK to be awarded this prestigious award in Experimental Psychology).
- 1999 – 2000 Postdoctoral Research Fellow. Dept of Experimental Psychology, Univ. of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- 1998 - 1999 Temporary lecturer in Psychology. University of Sussex, UK
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Nazanin Derakhshan is a Professor of Experimental Psychopathology, in the Department of Psychological Sciences and Founder of of the BRiC Centre (Building Resilience in Breast Cancer) at Birkbeck University of London, UK. She has conducted extensive research into the neurocognitive mechanisms underlying anxiety and depressive vulnerability and has developed neurocognitive interventions designed at reducing emotional vulnerability and promoting resilience. She has published widely in top internationally recognised peer-reviewed journals in her field and has been the holder of prestigious fellowships at the Royal Society and at the University of Oxford, as well as winning multiple awards in teaching, research and public engagement and impact.
Naz has a passion for running and spinning and is a breast cancer warrior.
Highlights
BRiC's latest research: Increased depression by 26% due to threats to job security from COVID-19 collateral damage in women with breast cancer
BRiC's award winning blog, Panning for Gold, in top rated 2020 breast cancer blogs as voted by @healthline
First scientific inquiry into the effects of Stoicism on protecting against anxiety and depression. See here for more on Stoicism
Office hours
I am on sabbatical at the moment so will update my office hours for 2021-22 accordingly.
Qualifications
- PhD, Royal Holloway University of London, UK, 1998
Web profiles
Administrative responsibilities
- Previously: Director of the Postgraduate Taught Courses and Director of Research (2014 - 2019). Undergraduate Admissions Tutor (2007 - 2012).
Visiting posts
- Visiting Professor, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, 09-2012 to 09-2015
- Research Associate, St John's College Oxford, 09-2012 to 09-2013
Professional activities
Editorial (past)
Editor in Chief: Anxiety, Stress, and Coping: An International Journal (2010-2012)
Associate Editor: Cognition and Emotion (2005–2013) Journal of Cognitive Psychology (2012–2013)
Honorary Editor: Journal of Experimental Psychopathology (2016). Risk and resilience in anxiety: Exploring the roles of attentional bias and attentional control in development
Guest Editor: Emotion (2012)
Editor Special Issue (2011) Information processing, affect, and psychopathology: A Festschrift for Michael W. Eysenck. Cognition and Emotion. Emotional States, Attentional Processes and Working Memory
Editorial (present):
Editor of the Special Issue on Pathways to Psychological Resilience in Breast Cancer Survivorship. Current Oncology
Associate Editor: Frontiers in Emotion Science
Associate Editor: Frontiers in Psycho-Oncology
Consultancy: Consultant to Novartis pharmaceuticals
PhD external examiner for the Universities of Kent, Granada (Spain), Cluj (Romania), Ghent (Belgium), Southampton, Stockholm (Sweden), Curtin University Australia, Ben Gurion University of the Negev Israel, Western Australia, University College London, King's College London, UCL, Birmingham, Roehampton, Sussex, and Edinburgh.
Organiser of the International STAR conference, London, 2008 (600 attendees).
Invited talks. I have given more than 50 invited talks in various national and international meetings including The Royal Society and The British Academy.
Conference presentations and symposia. I have organised over 20 symposia at different international conferences and presented in over 80 conference meetings.
Professional memberships
FAPS: Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science (since 2015).
Honours and awards
- Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science, American Psychological Association, January 2015
- Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Fellow, The Royal Society, December 2000
- Public engagement award, Birkbeck University of London, December 2019
- Young Scientist and Early Career Award, International Society for Research on Stress and Anxiety, December 2002
ORCID
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Research
Research
Research interests
- Neurocognitive mechanisms governing vulnerability to anxiety and depression, and resilience
- Attentional control training in anxiety and depression
- Building longer term resilience and empowering women with breast cancer
- Empowering breast cancer nurses with resilience and emotional flexibility
Research overview
Since developing and establishing Attentional Control Theory with Mike Eysenck, my research has focussed on unravelling the neurocognitive mechanisms behind anxiety and depression. A major discovery of this line of work has been the identification of Attentional Control as a determinant of emotional vulnerability and resilience. The work of my lab has shown that attentional control can be targeted and trained to empower cognitive and emotional well-being. With accumulating evidence from my lab, as well as others, there is promise that resilience can be learned and trained across the lifespan.
Recently, my translational work has focused on building resilience through the training of attentional control and cognitive flexibility in women diagnosed with and treated for breast cancer. Our research focuses on sustaining longer term emotional and cognitive health through the exercises that promote psychological flexibility. You can read more about this below.
Impact:
Birkbeck's Integrative Centre for Building Resilience in Breast Cancer (BRiC)
I established the Integrative Centre for Building Resilience in Breast Cancer (BRiC) at BBK in 2018, with current active members standing at just under 1900 UK women with breast cancer. With the scarcity of psychological care in survivorship, rates of emotional and cognitive vulnerability to depression and anxiety loom high. By combining neuroscience and clinical science, BRiC’s unique translational approach educates the practice of resilience in breast cancer.
Through funding received from the ESRC and Wellcome Trust, it has been possible to support two PhD studentships with our research establishing that neurocognitive training can result in sustained reductions in anxiety and depression in women with breast cancer (see Swainston, J.E., & Derakshan, N. Training cognitive control to reduce emotional vulnerability in breast cancer. Psycho-Oncology 27(7), 1780-1786, featuring across 26 media outlets (see last point in 'Latest News', see also: Chapman, B., Helmrath, S. & Derakshan, N. (2019). Perceived cognitive functioning and its influence on emotional vulnerability in breast cancer. Health Psychology Open 6 (2), 2055102919871661).
We have collaborated with hugely successful mindfulness app Headspace to assess the efficacy of mindfulness based meditation in combination with her training intervention on reduction of psychological distress in women with breast cancer (Swainston, J. & Derakshan, N.; under review; Reduced anxiety following mindfulness and adaptive working memory training in breast cancer; Mindfulness)
COVID-19 collateral damage effects on breast cancer
We have highlighted the collateral damage brought about by COVID_19 on treatment delays and cancellations impairing emotional health in women with breast cancer (Swainston, J., Chapman, B., Grunfeld, E., & Derakshan, N. (2020). COVID-19 lockdown and its adverse impact on psychological health in women with breast cancer. Frontiers in Psychology; Psycho-Oncology, https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.02033 and featured in The Telegraph; as well as Chapman, B., Swainston, J., Grunfeld, E., & Derakshan, N. (2020). COVID-19 outbreak effects on job security and emotional functioning amongst women living with breast cancer https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.582014, Frontiers in Psychology; Psycho-Oncology).
BRiC's blog: Panning for Gold
BRiC’s psychoeducational blog (Panning for Gold) which summarises BRiC’s Collective Voice has to date 91K followers and was rated amongst the top 10 best breast cancer blogs by @healthline earlier in 2020. BRiC’s psychoeducational network supports women through face-to-face meetings, emotion regulation exercises, and online interactive discussions, empowering resilience.
Through collaborative links with the biggest charity for research and care in breast cancer, Breast Cancer Now, I have developed popular blog posts on PTSD (8K listeners) and as well as anxiety and depression in breast cancer (26K listeners) (see media). Other podcasts include a two series programme with Novartis pharmaceuticals, on ‘a tough job made tougher’ highlighting nurses’ emotional vulnerability.
See here for testimonials and here for a short video of what people say about BRiC.
News!
In 2021, BRiC merges with Breast Cancer Now to set up ‘BRiC_Nurses’, a new psychoeducational centre for building resilience in frontline breast cancer nurses.
Cognitive training in adolescents
We have used adaptive cognitive training to improve educational well-being in adolescents, implemented initially at the City of London Boys’ and Girls’ schools in 2016. See our recent publication. The training quickly became a core part of the school’s academic offer with the Learning and Teaching Support Officers considering the training for anxious and depressed students.
Research Centres and Institutes
Lab information
Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Lab (in MERLiN)
My lab investigates the neurocognitive mechanisms behind emotional vulnerability and resilience in anxiety and depression. We develop and implement cognitive training interventions to alleviate as well as protect against anxiety and depressive vulnerability.
We take a multidisciplinary and integrative (mixed) approach in our research methods when conducting our work. Examples of these include EEG methods, eye-tracking, in addition to cognitive and behavioural measures. A number of our recent studies have also included qualitative approaches including IPA and thematic analysis.
Our lab enjoys the contribution and involvement of many enthusiastic undergraduate, masters and postgraduate students who are keen to pursue their research with us and who are not afraid to push the boundaries of our research in exciting ways!
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Supervision and teaching
Supervision and teaching
Supervision
I have been fortunate to supervise some amazing post-graduate students
Principal supervisor to:
Dr Tahereh L. Ansari (2006 - 2010). The cognitive and neural correlates of attentional control in anxiety. ESRC funded
Dr Max Owens (2008 – 2012). Working memory capacity in dysphoria. Funding: Departmental Studentship.
Dr Nick Berggren (2010 – 2014). Attentional control and capacity limits in trait vulnerability to anxiety. ESRC funded
Dr Manu Ducrocq (2014 – 2018). The role of attentional control and working memory capacity in anxiety related distractibility in tennis. ESRC funded.
Dr Jessica Swainston (2015 - 2019). Understanding the Neurocognitive Mechanisms and Improving Cognitive and Emotional Health in Female Survivors of Breast Cancer. ESRC funded
Dr Berna Sari (2012 - 2016). Vulnerability and resilience in anxiety (joint with Ghent University). Flemish council funded.
Dr Vida Mirabolfathi (2016 - 2020). Neurocognitive mechanisms and improving attentional control in survivors of PTSD. Funding: Institute for Cognitive Science Studies, Iran.
Patricia Beloe (2017 - ). Neurocognitive determinants of attentional control training for anxiety and depression in adolescents. ESRC funded.
Bethany Chapman (2018 - ). Improving workability in women with breast cancer using neurocognitive training. ESRC funded.
Karina Dolgilevica (2021 - ). The Effects of Heart Rate Variability/Vagal Tone Increase Biofeedback Training on Long-term Improvement in Emotional and Cognitive Functioning in Women with A Breast Cancer Diagnosis. ESRC funded.
Second supervisor to:
Dr. Charlene Coore (2005 – 2010). Exposure to violence and cognitive biases in Jamaican children. Common Wealth Studentship.
Dr Jana Brinkert (2017 – 2021). Perceptual and Cognitive Load in Autism – An Electrophysiological and Behavioural Approach Bloomsbury Studentship.
I welcome supervising prospective PhD or Masters students in any area of my research (see research overview and publications)
Teaching
I have taught research methods and statistics at undergraduate and postgraduate levels since 1998.
I am the coordinator and lecturer for the Masters course in Advanced Quantitative Methods (AQM) as well as Neurocognitive Processes in Mental Health. I have won multiple student voted awards for my teaching, such as Outstanding Lecturer and Outstanding Project Supervisor Awards.
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Publications
Publications
Article
- Swainston, Jessica and Derakhshan, Nazanin (2021) Neurocognitive efficiency in breast cancer survivorship: a performance monitoring ERP study. International Journal of Psychophysiology 168, pp. 9-20. ISSN 0167-8760.
- Maclellan, Alexander and Derakhshan, Nazanin (2021) The effects of Stoic training and Adaptive Cognitive Training on emotional vulnerability in high worriers. Cognitive Therapy and Research 45, pp. 730-744. ISSN 0147-5916.
- Shani, R. and Shachaf, T. and Derakhshan, Nazanin and Cohen, N. and Enock, P.M. and McNally, R.J. and Mor, N. and Daches, S. and Williams, A.D. and Yiend, J. and Carlbring, P. and Kuckertz, J.M. and Yang, W. and Reinecke, A. and Beevers, C.G. and Bunnell, B.B. and Koster, E.H.W and Zilcha-Mano, S. and Okon-Singer, H. (2021) Personalized cognitive training: protocol for individual-level meta-analysis implementing machine learning methods. Journal of Psychiatric Research 138, pp. 342-348. ISSN 0022-3956.
- Choobin, M.H. and Mirabolfathi, Vida and Chapman, Bethany and Moradi, A.R. and Grunfeld, Beth and Derakhshan, Nazanin (2021) The impact of COVID-19 outbreak on emotional and cognitive vulnerability in Iranian women With Breast Cancer. Frontiers in Psychology - Psycho-Oncology ISSN 1664-1078.
- Derakhshan, Nazanin (2021) Cognitive control can improve the quality of life of women with breast cancer. The Psychologist 34, pp. 42-45. ISSN 0952-8229.
- Dobretsova, Anna and Derakhshan, Nazanin (2021) Cognitive function and emotional vulnerability in metastatic breast cancer: moderating effects of age and social support. Psycho-Oncology ISSN 1099-1611.
- Chapman, Bethany and Swainston, Jessica and Grunfeld, Beth and Derakhshan, Nazanin (2020) COVID-19 outbreak effects on job security and emotional functioning amongst women living with breast cancer. Frontiers in Psychology - Psycho-Oncology ISSN 1664-1078.
- Swainston, Jessica and Chapman, Bethany and Grunfeld, Beth and Derakhshan, Nazanin (2020) COVID-19 lockdown and its adverse impact on psychological health in breast cancer. Frontiers in Psychology ISSN 1664-1078.
- Beloe, Patricia and Derakhshan, Nazanin (2020) Adaptive working memory training can reduce anxiety and depression vulnerability in adolescents. Developmental Science 23 (4), pp. e12831. ISSN 1363-755x.
- Sari, B. and Tarman, G.Z. and Ozdogan, B. and Metin, B. and Derakhshan, Nazanin (2020) Working Memory Training in relation to anxiety, stress, and motivation. Journal of Cognitive Enhancement 4, pp. 446-452. ISSN 2509-3290.
- Dolcos, F. and Katsumia, Y. and Moore, M. and Berggren, Nick and de Gelder, B. and Derakhshan, Nazanin and Hamm, A. and Koster, E. and Ladouceurg, C. and Okon-Singer, H. and Pegnai, A. and Richter, T. and Schweizer, S. and Van den Stock, J. and Ventural-Bortl, C. and Weymar, M. and Dolcos, S. (2020) Neural correlates of emotion-attention interactions: from perception, learning, and memory to social cognition, individual differences, and training interventions. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews 108, pp. 559-601. ISSN 0149‐7634.
- Chapman, Bethany and Helmarth, S. and Derakhshan, Nazanin (2019) Perceived cognitive functioning and its influence on emotional vulnerability in breast cancer. Health Psychology Open 6 (2), ISSN 2055-1029.
- Swainston, J. and Derakhshan, Nazanin (2018) Training cognitive control to reduce emotional vulnerability in breast cancer. Psycho-Oncology 27 (7), pp. 1780-1786. ISSN 1099-1611.
- Grol, M. and Schwenzfeier, A.K. and Stricker, J. and Booth, C. and Temple-McCune, A. and Derakhshan, Nazanin and Hirsch, C. and Becker, E. and Fox, E. (2018) The worrying mind in control: an investigation of adaptive working memory training and cognitive bias modification in worry-prone individuals. Behaviour Research and Therapy 103, pp. 1-11. ISSN 0005-7967.
- Hotton, M. and Derakhshan, Nazanin and Fox, E. (2018) A randomised controlled trial investigating the benefits of adaptive working memory training for working memory capacity and attentional control in high worriers. Behaviour Research and Therapy 100, pp. 67-77. ISSN 0005-7967.
- Ducrocq, Emmanuel and Wilson, M. and Smith, Tim J. and Derakhshan, Nazanin (2017) Adaptive working memory training reduces the negative impact of anxiety on competitive motor performance. Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology 39 (6), pp. 412-422. ISSN 1543-2904.
- Koster, E.H.W. and Hoorelbeke, K. and Onraedt, T. and Owens, M. and Derakhshan, Nazanin (2017) Cognitive control interventions for depression: a systematic review of findings from training studies. Clinical Psychology Review 53, pp. 79-92. ISSN 0272-7358.
- Course-Choi, J. and Saville, H. and Derakhshan, Nazanin (2017) The effects of adaptive working memory training and mindfulness meditation training on processing efficiency and worry in high worriers. Behaviour Research and Therapy 89, pp. 1-13. ISSN 0005-7967.
- Sari, B.A. and Koster, E.H.W. and Derakhshan, Nazanin (2017) The effects of active worrying on working memory capacity. Cognition and Emotion 31 (5), pp. 995-1003. ISSN 0269-9931.
- Sari, B.A. and Koster, E.H.W. and Pourtois, G. and Derakhshan, Nazanin (2016) Training working memory to improve attentional control in anxiety: a proof-of-principle study using behavioral and electrophysiological measures. Biological Psychology 121 (B), pp. 203-212. ISSN 0301-0511.
- Ducrocq, Emmanuel and Wilson, M. and Vine, S. and Derakhshan, Nazanin (2016) Training attentional control improves cognitive and motor task performance. Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology 38 (5), pp. 521-533. ISSN 0895-2779.
- Kalanthroff, E. and Henik, A. and Derakhshan, Nazanin and Usher, Marius (2016) Anxiety, emotional distraction, and attentional control in the Stroop task. Emotion 16 (3), pp. 293-300. ISSN 1528-3542.
- Berggren, N. and Curtis, H.M. and Derakhshan, Nazanin (2016) Interactions of emotion and anxiety on visual working memory performance. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review ISSN 1069-9384.
- Berggren, Nick and Blonievsky, T. and Derakhshan, Nazanin (2015) Enhanced visual detection in trait anxiety. Emotion 15 (4), pp. 477-483. ISSN 1528-3542.
- Myers, L.B. and Derakhshan, Nazanin (2015) The relationship between two types of impaired emotion processing: repressive coping and alexithymia. Frontiers in Psychology 6, ISSN 1664-1078.
- Owens, Max J. and Derakhshan, Nazanin and Richards, Anne (2015) Trait susceptibility to worry modulates the effects of cognitive load on cognitive control: an ERP study. Emotion 15 (5), pp. 544-549. ISSN 1528-3542.
- Berggren, N. and Derakhshan, Nazanin (2014) Inhibitory deficits in trait anxiety: increased stimulus-based or response-based interference?. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review 21 (5), pp. 1339-1345. ISSN 1069-9384.
- Berggren, N. and Blonievsky, T. and Derakhshan, Nazanin (2014) Superior visual search efficiency in high trait anxiety. Journal of Vision 14 (10), pp. 543-543. ISSN 1534-7362.
- Berggren, Nick and Richards, Anne and Taylor, J. and Derakhshan, Nazanin (2013) Affective attention under cognitive load: reduced emotional biases but emergent anxiety-related costs to inhibitory control. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 7, pp. 188. ISSN 1662-5161.
- Berggren, Nick and Derakhshan, Nazanin (2013) Trait anxiety reduces implicit expectancy during target spatial probability cueing. Emotion 13 (2), pp. 345-349. ISSN 1528-3542.
- Berggren, Nick and Derakhshan, Nazanin (2013) Attentional control deficits in trait anxiety: why you see them and why you don’t. Biological Psychology 92 (3), pp. 440-446. ISSN 0301-0511.
- Owens, Max J. and Derakhshan, Nazanin (2013) The effects of dysphoria and rumination on cognitive flexibility and task selection. Acta Psychologica 142 (3), pp. 323-331. ISSN 0001-6918.
- Owens, Max J. and Koster, E.H.W. and Derakhshan, Nazanin (2013) Improving attention control in dysphoria through cognitive training: transfer effects on working memory capacity and filtering efficiency. Psychophysiology 50 (3), pp. 297-307. ISSN 0048-5772.
- Berggren, N. and Blonievsky, T. and Derakhshan, Nazanin (2013) Enhanced visual detection in trait anxiety under perceptual load. Perception 42, pp. 243. ISSN 0301-0066.
- Berggren, Nick and Derakhshan, Nazanin (2013) Blinded by fear? Prior exposure to fearful faces enhances attentional processing of task-irrelevant stimuli. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 66 (11), pp. 2204-2218. ISSN 1747-0218.
- Berggren, Nick and Derakhshan, Nazanin (2013) The role of consciousness in attentional control differences in trait anxiety. Cognition & Emotion 27 (5), pp. 923-931. ISSN 0269-9931.
- Flykt, A. and Lindeberg, S. and Derakhshan, Nazanin (2012) Fear makes you stronger: responding to feared animal targets in visual search. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics 74 (7), pp. 1437-1445. ISSN 1943-3921.
- Everaert, J. and Koster, E.H.W. and Derakhshan, Nazanin (2012) The combined cognitive bias hypothesis in depression: a state-of-the-art. Clinical Psychology Review 32 (5), pp. 413-424. ISSN 0272-7358.
- Berggren, Nick and Koster, E.H.W. and Derakhshan, Nazanin (2012) The effect of cognitive load in emotional attention and trait anxiety: an eye movement study. Journal of Cognitive Psychology 24 (1), pp. 79-91. ISSN 2044-5911.
- Derakhshan, Nazanin and Koster, E.H.W. (2012) Information processing, affect, and psychopathology: a Festschrift for Michael W. Eysenck. Journal of Cognitive Psychology 24 (1), pp. 1-5. ISSN 2044-5911.
- Unguetti-Pacheco, A.P. and Acosta, A. and Lupianez, J. and Naiker, R. and Derakhshan, Nazanin (2012) Response inhibition and attentional control in anxiety. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 65 (4), pp. 646-660. ISSN 1747-0218.
- Berggren, Nick and Hutton, S.B. and Derakhshan, Nazanin (2011) The effects of self-report cognitive failures and cognitive load on antisaccade performance. Frontiers in Psychology 2, ISSN 1664-1078.
- Owens, Max J. and Koster, E.H.W. and Derakhshan, Nazanin (2011) Impaired filtering of irrelevant information in dysphoria: an ERP study. Social cognitive and affective neuroscience 7 (7), pp. 752-763. ISSN 1749-5024.
- Eysenck, M.W. and Derakhshan, Nazanin (2011) New perspectives in attentional control theory. Personality and Individual Differences 50 (7), pp. 955-960. ISSN 0191-8869.
- Ansari, T.L. and Derakhshan, Nazanin (2011) The neural correlates of impaired inhibitory control in anxiety. Neuropsychologia 49 (5), pp. 1146-1153. ISSN 0028-3932.
- Ansari, T.L. and Derakhshan, Nazanin (2011) The neural correlates of cognitive effort in anxiety: effects on processing efficiency. Biological Psychology 86 (3), pp. 337-348. ISSN 0301-0511.
- Koster, E.H.W. and de Lissnyder, E. and Derakhshan, Nazanin and de Raedt, R. (2011) Understanding depressive rumination from a cognitive science perspective: the impaired disengagement hypothesis. Clinical Psychology Review 31 (1), pp. 138-145. ISSN 0272-7358.
- de Lissnyder, E. and Derakhshan, Nazanin and de Raedt, R. and Koster, E.H.W. (2011) Depressive symptoms and cognitive control in a mixed antisaccade task: specific effects of depressive rumination. Cognition & Emotion 25 (5), pp. 886-897. ISSN 0269-9931.
- Derakhshan, Nazanin and Koster, E.H.W. (2010) Processing efficiency in anxiety: evidence from eye-movements during visual search. Behaviour Research and Therapy 48 (12), pp. 1180-1185. ISSN 0005-7967.
- Schwerdtfeger, A. and Derakhshan, Nazanin (2010) The time line of threat processing and vagal withdrawal in response to a self-threatening stressor in cognitive avoidant copers: evidence for vigilance-avoidance theory. Psychophysiology 47 (4), pp. 786-795. ISSN 0048-5772.
- Ansari, T.L. and Derakhshan, Nazanin (2010) Anxiety impairs inhibitory control but not volitional action control. Cognition and Emotion 24 (2), pp. 241-254. ISSN 0269-9931.
- Derakhshan, Nazanin and Eysenck, M.W. (2010) Introduction to the special issue: emotional states, attention, and working memory. Cognition and Emotion 24 (2), pp. 189-199. ISSN 0269-9931.
- de Lissnyder, E. and Koster, E.H.W. and Derakhshan, Nazanin and de Raedt, R. (2010) The association between depressive symptoms and executive control impairments in response to emotional and non-emotional information. Cognition and Emotion 24 (2), pp. 264-280. ISSN 0269-9931.
- Ernst, M. and Derakhshan, Nazanin (2010) From perception to action: when, where, and how does anxiety break the chain?. Psychophysiology 47, pp. S5-S6. ISSN 0048-5772.
- Richards, Anne and Hannon, Emily M. and Derakhshan, Nazanin (2010) Predicting and manipulating the incidence of inattentional blindness. Psychological Research 74 (6), pp. 513-523. ISSN 0340-0727.
- Derakhshan, Nazanin and Smyth, S. and Eysenck, M.W. (2009) Effects of state anxiety on performance using a task-switching paradigm: an investigation of attentional control theory. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review 16 (6), pp. 1112-1117. ISSN 1069-9384.
- Derakhshan, Nazanin and Salt, M. and Koster, E.H.W. (2009) Attentional control in dysphoria: an investigation using the antisaccade task. Biological Psychology 80 (2), pp. 251-255. ISSN 0301-0511.
- Derakhshan, Nazanin and Ansari, T.L. and Hansard, M. and Shoker, L. and Eysenck, M.W. (2009) Anxiety, inhibition, efficiency, and effectiveness an investigation using the antisaccade task. Experimental Psychology 56 (1), pp. 48-55. ISSN 1618-3169.
- Derakhshan, Nazanin and Eysenck, M.W. (2009) Anxiety, processing efficiency, and cognitive performance new developments from attentional control theory. European Psychologist 14 (2), pp. 168-176. ISSN 1016-9040.
- Ansari, T.L. and Derakhshan, Nazanin and Richards, Anne (2008) Effects of anxiety on task switching: evidence from the mixed antisaccade task. Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience 8 (3), pp. 229-238. ISSN 1530-7026.
- Fox, E. and Derakhshan, Nazanin and Shoker, L. (2008) Trait anxiety modulates the electrophysiological indices of rapid spatial orienting towards angry faces. NeuroReport 19 (3), pp. 259-263. ISSN 0959-4965.
- Derakhshan, Nazanin and Ansari, T.L. (2008) The effects of threat on task-switching in anxiety: evidence from eye-movements during an antisaccade task. Psychophysiology 45 (S1), pp. S39-S39. ISSN 0048-5772.
- Eysenck, M.W. and Derakhshan, Nazanin and Santos, R. and Calvo, M.G. (2007) Anxiety and cognitive performance: attentional control theory. Emotion 7 (2), pp. 336 - 353. ISSN 1528-3542.
- Derakhshan, Nazanin and Eysenck, M.W. and Myers, L.B. (2007) Emotional information processing in repressors: the vigilance-avoidance theory. Cognition and Emotion 21 (8), pp. 1585-1614. ISSN 0269-9931.
- Derakhshan, Nazanin and Eysenck, M.W. (2005) When the bogus pipeline interferes with self-deceptive strategies: effects on state anxiety in repressors. Cognition and Emotion 19 (1), pp. 83-100. ISSN 0269-9931.
- Eysenck, M.W. and Payne, S. and Derakhshan, Nazanin (2005) Trait anxiety, visuospatial processing, and working memory. Cognition and Emotion 19 (8), pp. 1214-1228. ISSN 0269-9931.
- Lipp, O.V. and Derakhshan, Nazanin (2005) Attentional bias to pictures of fear relevant animals in a dot probe task. Emotion 5 (3), pp. 365-369. ISSN 1528-3542.
- Derakhshan, Nazanin and Myers, L.B. and Hansen, J. and O'Leary, M. (2004) Repressive-defensiveness and attempted thought suppression of negative material. European Journal of Personality 18 (7), pp. 521-535. ISSN 1099-0984.
- Lipp, O.V. and Derakhshan, Nazanin and Waters, A.M. and Logies, S. (2004) Snakes and cats in the flower bed: fast detection is not specific to pictures of fear-relevant animals. Emotion 4 (3), pp. 233-250. ISSN 1528-3542.
- Myers, L.B. and Derakhshan, Nazanin (2004) Do childhood memories colour social judgements of today? the case of repressors. European Journal of Personality 18 (4), pp. 321-330. ISSN 1099-0984.
- Myers, L.B. and Derakhshan, Nazanin (2004) To forget or not to forget: what do repressors forget and when do they forget?. Cognition and Emotion 18 (4), pp. 495-511. ISSN 0269-9931.
- Myers, L.B. and Vetere, A. and Derakhshan, Nazanin (2004) Are suppression and repressive coping related?. Personality and Individual Differences 36 (5), pp. 1009-1013. ISSN 0191-8869.
- Cooke, L. and Myers, L.B. and Derakhshan, Nazanin (2003) Lung function, adherence and denial in asthma patients who exhibit a repressive coping style. Psychology, Health and Medicine 8 (1), pp. 35-44. ISSN 1354-8506.
- Derakhshan, Nazanin and Eysenck, M.W. (2001) Effects of focus of attention on physiological, behavioural, and reported state anxiety in repressors, low-anxious, high-anxious, and defensive high-anxious individuals. Anxiety, Stress & Coping 14 (3), pp. 285-299. ISSN 1061-5806.
- Derakhshan, Nazanin and Eysenck, M.W. (2001) Manipulation of focus of attention and its effects on anxiety in high-anxious individuals and repressors. Anxiety, Stress & Coping 14 (2), pp. 173-191. ISSN 1061-5806.
- Myers, L.B. and Derakhshan, Nazanin (2000) Monitoring and blunting and an assessment of different coping styles. Personality and Individual Differences 28 (1), pp. 111-121. ISSN 0191-8869.
- Derakhshan, Nazanin and Eysenck, M.W. (1999) Are repressors self-deceivers or other-deceivers?. Cognition and Emotion 17 (1), pp. 1-13. ISSN 0269-9931.
- Eysenck, M.W. and Derakhshan, Nazanin (1999) Self-reported and other-rated trait anxiety and defensiveness in repressor, low-anxious, high-anxious, and defensive high-anxious groups. Anxiety, Stress & Coping 12 (2), pp. 127-144. ISSN 1061-5806.
- Derakhshan, Nazanin and Eysenck, M.W. (1998) Working memory capacity in high trait-anxious and repressor groups. Cognition and Emotion 12 (5), pp. 697-713. ISSN 0269-9931.
- Eysenck, M.W. and Derakhshan, Nazanin (1998) A cognitive theoretical framework for the anxiety disorders. Ansiedad y Estrés ISSN 1134-7937.
- Derakhshan, Nazanin and Eysenck, M.W. (1997) Interpretive biases for one's own behavior and physiology in high-trait-anxious individuals and repressors. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 73 (4), pp. 816-825. ISSN 0022-3514.
- Derakhshan, Nazanin and Eysenck, M.W. (1997) Repression and repressors. European Psychologist 2 (3), pp. 235-246. ISSN 1016-9040.
- Eysenck, M.W. and Derakhshan, Nazanin (1997) Cognitive biases for future negative events as a function of trait anxiety and social desirability. Personality and Individual Differences 22 (5), pp. 597-605. ISSN 0191-8869.
Book Section
- Derakhshan, Nazanin (2020) Attentional control and cognitive biases as determinants of vulnerability and resilience in anxiety and depression. In: Aue, T. and Okon-Singer, H. (eds.) Cognitive Biases in Health and Psychiatric Disorders. Academic Press. ISBN 9780128166604.
- Berggren, Nick and Derakhshan, Nazanin (2018) Beyond the threat bias: reciprocal links between emotion and cognition. In: Fox, A.S. and Lapate, R. and Shackman, A.J. and Davidson, R.J. (eds.) The Nature of Emotion: Fundamental Questions. Series in Affective Science. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780190612573.
- Fox, E. and Derakhshan, Nazanin and Standage, H. (2011) The assessment of human attention. In: Klauer, K.C. and Stahl, C. and Voss, A. (eds.) Cognitive Methods in Social Psychology. New York, USA: Guilford Press. pp. 15-47. ISBN 9781462509133.
- Richards, Anne and Hannon, Emily M. and Derakhshan, Nazanin (2009) Why are some people inattentionally blind and can training reduce its frequency of occurrence?. In: Taatgen, N. and van Rijn, H. (eds.) CogSci 2009 Proceedings. Austin, Texas, USA: Cognitive Science Society. pp. 1306-1311. ISBN 9780976831853.
- Myers, L.B. and Burns, J.W. and Derakhshan, Nazanin and Elfant, E. and Eysenck, M.W. and Phipps, S. (2008) Current issues in repressive coping and health. In: Vingerhoets, A. and Nyklíček, I. and Denollet, J. (eds.) Emotion Regulation: Conceptual and Clinical Issues. London, UK: Springer. pp. 69-86. ISBN 9780387299853.
- Myers, L.B. and Burns, J.W. and Derakhshan, Nazanin and Elfant, E. and Eysenck, M.W. and Phipps, S. (2008) Twenty five years on: current issues in repressive coping and health. In: Vingerhoets, A. and Nickleck, I. and Denollet, J. (eds.) Emotion Regulation: Conceptual and Clinical Issues. London, UK: Springer. ISBN 9780387299860.
- Myers, L.B. and Derakhshan, Nazanin (2004) The repressive coping style and avoidance of negative affect. In: Nyklicek, I. and Temoshok, L. and Vingerhoets, A. (eds.) Emotional expression and health. Routledge. ISBN 9781583918432.
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