A new project, beginning in 2001 and funded by the Charles Dana Foundation, will be examining these variables in new Alzheimer's caregivers. Clinically, I am interested in empirically based cognitive-behavioral treatments, especially treatment of anxiety disorders such as panic and generalized anxiety disorder. Individual differences and psychoneuroimmunology. Repetitive thought as a concomitant and predictor of negative mood. Worry affects the immune response to phobic fear.
Optimism is associated with mood, coping, and immune change in response to stress.