Alicia Meuret, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Hamburg

Stress, Anxiety, and Chronic Disease Research Program

Research interests

•  Mechanisms of change in biobehavioral treatments for panic and related disorders.
•  Development of novel empirically supported psychological treatments for panic  
      and  related disorders
•  Ambulatory monitoring and other psychophysiological assessments in psychological
      disorders and organic disease
 

Representative publications (2006-2007)

Meuret, A.E., Wilhelm, F. H., Ritz, T., & Roth, W.T. (in press). Feedback of End-tidal pCO2 as a Therapeutic Approach for Panic Disorder. Journal of Psychiatric Research.

Wollburg, E., Roth, W.T., Conrad, A., Meuret, A.E., & Kim, S. (in press). Psychophysiological Reactions to two Levels of Voluntary Hyperventilation in Panic Disorder. Journal of Anxiety Disorders.

Ritz, T., Rosenfield, D., Meuret, A.E., Bobb, C., & Steptoe, A. (in press). Hyperventilation symptoms are linked to a lower quality of life in asthma patients. Annals of Behavioral Medicine

Meuret, A.E., Ritz, T., Wilhelm, F.H., & Roth, W.T. (in press). Targeting pCO2 in asthma: Pilot evaluation of a capnometry-assisted breathing training. Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback.

Roth, W.T., Doberenz, S.,Dietel, A., Conrad, A., Mueller, A., Wollburg, E., Meuret, A.E., Taylor, C.B., & Kim, S. (in press). Sympathetic activation in broadly defined generalized anxiety disorder. Journal of Psychiatric Research.

Hofmann, S. G., Meuret, A. E., Rosenfield, D., Suvak, M. K., Barlow, D. H., Gorman, J. M., Shear, M. K., & Woods, S. W. (2007). Preliminary Evidence for Cognitive Mediation during Cognitive Behavioral Therapy of Panic Disorder. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 75, 374-379.

Meuret, A.E., Ehrenreich, J., Pincus, D.B., & Ritz, T. (2006). Prevalence and correlates of asthma in children with internalizing psychopathology. Depression and Anxiety, 23, 502-8.

Hofmann, S.G., Schultz, S., Meuret, A.E., Moscovich, D., & Suvak, M. (2006). Sudden Gains During Therapy of Social Phobia. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 74, 687-697.

Meuret, A.E., White, K. S., Ritz, T., Roth, W.T., Hofmann, S.G., & Brown, T.  (2006). Panic Attack Symptom Dimensions and their Relationship to Illness Characteristics in Panic Disorder. Journal of Psychiatric Research, 6, 520-527.

Hofmann, S.G., Meuret, A.E., Smits, J.A.J., Simon, N.M., Pollack, M.H., Eisenmenger, K., Shiekh, M., & Otto, M.W. (2006). Augmentation of exposure therapy for social anxiety disorder with d-cycloserine. Archives of General Psychiatry, 63:298-304.