COGNITIVE MODEL OF PANIC DISORDER WITH AGORAPHOBIA
Project Number5R01MH046747-02
Former Number1R01MH044318-01A1
Contact PI/Project LeaderMICHELSON, LARRY
Awardee OrganizationPENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY, THE
Description
Abstract Text
The primary objective of this proposal is to conduct comparative outcome
investigation of a highly promising treatment derived from the Cognitive
Model of Panic (CMP) vs. applied Relaxation Training in the treatment of
Panic Disorder with Agoraphobia (PDA). A comprehensive assessment battery
will be administered at pre, mid, posttreatment and at 3, 6, 12, and
24-month follow-ups to monitor the treatments' efficacy, clinical
significance and generalization. The mediating influence of stressful
life events and individual differences will be examined.
Longitudinal monitoring will delineate cognitive, behaviotal,
physiological, and psychological adjustment, relapse and the emergence of
any psychiatric disorders. Forty-eight patients, meeting DSM-III-R
criteria for PDA, will be randomly assigned to the treatments. Protocol
therapists, whose treatment integrity will be objectively monitored, will
be counterbalanced across treatments. The role of self-directed exposure
practice, marital adjustment, response profiles, concordance-
disconcordance, need for interim treatment and booster sessions will be
compared across conditions. Moreover, the clinical impact of the
treatments will be examined by comparing treated patients to normative,
non-phobic cohorts as well as using formal clinical significance testing.
The proposed study will address critical conceptual, methodological and
clinical-research issues regarding their short and long-term efficacy for
this chronic and severe anxiety disorder, estimated to afflict 5-11
million Americans.
Lyl+B cells are a unique subpopulation of critical importance in the
development of autoimmunity, immunodeficiency and B cell malignancy. The
goal of this grant is to investigate the immunoregulatory role of
hyperdiploid Ly1+B cells obtained from the spleens of NZB mice.
Immunoregulation will be investigated in cell transfer experiments in
which hyperdiploid splenic Lyl+B cells will be transfused into
unirradiated autoimmune and non-autoimmune recipients. Chromosome markers
show that the only long-lived donor cells found in these recipients are
hyperdiploid LYI+B cells. The effect of in vivo transferred LYI+B cells
recipient antibody production both spontaneously produced autoantibody and
antibody to exogenous antigens,and recipient B cells subpopulations will be
assessed. Hyperdiploid Ly1+B cell hybridomas as well as purified Ly1+B cell
will be studied for antibody specificity and VH gene family usage. These
results will be compared with conventional peritoneal diploid Ly1+B cell V
gene usage. Experiments will determine if diploid Ly1+B cells in young NZB
mice develop into hyperdiploid Ly1+B cells genetically programmed fashion
or in response to environmental stimuli. The splenic hyperdiploid Lyl+B
cells offer a unique opportunity to study the development and function of
a singular population of spontaneous occurring B cells. These cells
can be used to investigate the role of Ly1+b cells in vivo by virtue of
their selective growth advantage and
abnormal chromosome markers which allow independent identification in human
immune disorders such as rheumatoid artheitis, Leul+ B cells (human analog
of Lyl+ B cells) are elevated. In addition, the malignant cell in many
chronic lymohocytic leukemias has been identified as a Leu1+ B cell. Becaus
this unique subulation of B cells is important in patients with autoimmunit
and malignancy, the proposed studies of the role of the murine analog, Lyl-
B cells, in immune regulation have important clinical relevance. An
uhderitanding of the mechanism of immunoregulation by Lyl+B cells may lead
to novel therapeutic intervention in disease.
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