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NAME Fresco, David Marc POSITION TITLE Associate Professor of Psychology eRA COMMONS USER NAME (credential, e.g., agency login) dmfresco EDUCATION/TRAINING (Begin with baccalaureate or other
initial professional education, such as nursing, include postdoctoral
training and residency training if applicable.) INSTITUTION
AND LOCATION DEGREE (if applicable)
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STUDY Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, USA BA 05/90 Psychology University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC,
USA MA 05/94 Psychology University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC,
USA Ph.D. 05/99 Psychology Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, USA Postdoctoral 08/01 Psychology
A.
Personal Statement
I am an
associate professor psychology at Kent State University and adjunct associate
professor of psychiatry at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. I
direct the Psychopathology and Emotion Regulation Laboratory (PERL). I received
my PhD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and completed a
postdoctoral fellowship at Temple University. My program of research adopts an affective
science perspective to the study of anxiety and mood disorders. Working at the
interface of cognitive behavioral and emotion regulation approaches, I conduct
survey, experimental, and treatment research to examine factors associated with
major depressive disorder (MDD) and generalized anxiety disorder (GAD)
including metacognitive factors (e.g., explanatory flexibility, decentering,
rumination, worry), peripheral psychophysiology, and emerging work from
affective neuroscience, utilizing neuroimaging and electrophysiological
techniques. Another focus of the PERL lab is the development of treatments
informed by affective and contemplative neuroscience findings that incorporate
mindfulness meditation and other practices derived from Buddhist mental training
exercises. Much of my NIH-funded treatment research has focused on the
infusion of mindfulness into Western psychosocial treatments. I am presently
Associate Editor for two journals, the Journal of Consulting and Clinical
Psychology and Behavior Therapy and a member of the editorial
board of several journals including Journal of Abnormal Psychology. I am also a frequent reviewer for the Interventions Committee of Adult
Disorders (ITVA) of the National Institute of Mental Health.
B. Positions and Employment
2001 to
2007 Assistant
Professor, Department of Psychology, Kent State University
2007 to
Present Associate
Professor, Department of Psychology, Kent State University
2011 to Present Adjunct Associate
Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Case Western Reserve University School of
Medicine
Other Experience and Professional Memberships
2012- Associate
Editor, Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology
2009- Associate Editor, Behavior Therapy
2010- Editorial Board,
Journal of Abnormal Psychology
2010- Editorial Board,
Journal of Consulting and Clinical
Psychology
2006- Editorial Board, Cognitive Therapy and
Research
2005- Editorial Board,
Behavior Therapy
2012- Temporary
Member, Fellowships and Dissertation Grants (ZMH1 ERB-M 04 S)
2009-2012 Temporary Member, Interventions Committee for Adult Disorders
(ITVA)
2007- 2008 Temporary Member, Interventions for Anxiety and Mood Disorders
Review Committee (ITMA)
2006 Temporary Member, Adult Interventions
Special Emphasis Panel (ZMH1 ERB-P-01)
2004-2006 Temporary Member, Interventions Review Committee (ITV)
C. Selected
Peer-reviewed Publications (Selected from over 50 peer-reviewed
publications & chapters)
1.
Fresco, D. M., Segal, Z. V., Buis, T., & Kennedy, S. (2007). Relationship of post
treatment decentering and cognitive reactivity following an emotion evocation
challenge to relapse of major depressive disorder. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 75, 447-455.
2.
Fresco, D. M., Moore, M. T., van Dulmen, M., Segal, Z. V., Teasdale, J. D., Ma, H., &
Williams, J. M. G. (2007). Initial psychometric properties of the Experiences
Questionnaire: A self-report survey
of decentering. Behavior Therapy, 38, 234-246.
3.
Petersen,
T., Feldman, G., Harley, R., Fresco, D.
M., Graves, L., Holmes, A., Bogdan, A., Papakostas, G. I., Bohn, L., Lury,
E., Fava, M., & Segal, Z. V. (2007). Extreme Response Style in Recurrent
and/or Chronically Depressed Patients – Change With Acute Antidepressant
Treatment and Stability During Continuation Treatment. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 75, 145-153.
4.
Fresco, D. M.,
Flynn, J. J., Mennin, D. S., & Haigh, E. A. P. (2010). Mindfulness-Based
Cognitive Therapy (pp. 57-82). In J. D. Herbert & E. Forman. Acceptance
and Mindfulness in Cognitive Behavior Therapy. New York: Wiley.
5.
Fresco, D. M., Frankel, A., Mennin, D. S., Turk,
C. L., & Heimberg, R. G. (2002). Distinct and overlapping features of
rumination and worry: The
relationship of cognitive production to negative affective states. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 26, 179-188.
6.
Fresco, D. M., Heimberg,
R. G., Abramowitz, A., & Bertram, T. L. (2006). The effect of a
negative mood priming challenge on dysfunctional attitudes, explanatory style,
and explanatory flexibility. British
Journal of Clinical Psychology, 45, 167-183.
7.
Fresco, D. M., Rytwinski, N. K., & Craighead,
L. W. (2007). Explanatory flexibility and negative life events interact to
predict depression symptoms. Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 26, 595-608.
8.
Mennin,
D. S, Holaway, R. M., Fresco, D. M., Moore, M. T., & Heimberg, R. G. (2007). Delineating Components of Emotion Dysregulation in Anxiety and Mood
Psychopathology. Behavior Therapy, 38, 284-302.
9.
Mennin,
D. S., Heimberg, R. G., Fresco, D. M., & Ritter, M. R. (2008). Is
generalized anxiety disorder an anxiety or mood Disorder? Considering multiple
factors as we ponder the fate of GAD. Depression and Anxiety, 25, 289-299.
10.
Ledley, D.R., Heimberg, R.G., Hope, D.A.,
Hayes, S.A., Zaider, T.I., Van Dyke, M., Turk, C.L.,
Kraus, C., & Fresco, D.M. (2009). Efficacy of a manualized and
workbook-driven individual treatment for social anxiety disorder. Behavior
Therapy, 40, 414-424.
11.
Armey, M., Moore, M. T., Fresco,
D. M., Mennin, D. S., Turk, C. L., & Heimberg, R. G., Spasojevic, J, & Alloy, L. B. (2009). Brooding and
Pondering: Isolating the active ingredients of depressive rumination with
confirmatory factor analysis. Assessment, 16, 315-327.
12.
Blanco, C., Heimberg, R.G., Schneier, F.R., Fresco, D.M., Chen, H., Turk, C.L., Vermes, D., Erwin, B.A., Schmidt, A.B., Juster,
H.R., Capeas, R., Liebowitz, M.R. (2010). A
Placebo-Controlled Trial of Phenelzine, Cognitive
Behavioral Group Therapy and their Combination for Social Anxiety Disorder. Archives
of General Psychiatry, 67, 286-295.
13.
Moore, M. T., & Fresco, D. M. (2012). Depressive
realism: A meta-analytic review. Clinical Psychology Review, 32(6),
1–14. doi:10.1016/j.cpr.2012.05.004
14.
Mennin, D. S., Ellard, K. K., Fresco, D. M., & Gross, J. J. (in
press). Emphasizing commonalities of cognitive-behavioral therapies within a
broadening field of intervention science. Behavior Therapy.
15.
Mennin, D. S. & Fresco, D. M. (in press). Emotion
Regulation Therapy. In J. J. Gross (Ed.) Handbook of Emotion Regulation, 2nd Ed. New York: Guilford Press. D. Research
Support
Ongoing Research Support
Dean’s Innovation Award Fresco (PI) 06/01/12-9/31/13
This
innovation award seeks to identify dissociable neurobehavioral markers of
anxious depression (e.g., conflict monitoring, decentering) as compared to
demographically matched healthy control participants.
Role: PI
Mind and
Life Institute Flynn
(PI) 01/01/11-12/31/13
This
Francisco J. Varela Research Award, given to my doctoral student, Jessica
Flynn, will examine the neural correlates associated with training in
loving-kindness meditation in relation to approach and avoidance
motivations.
Role: Faculty Mentor
Completed Research Support
Ohio Board
of Regents Fresco
(PI) 06/01/10-5/31/12
This Research
Incentive Grant sought to identify signature patterns of cognitive, emotional,
and physiological reactivity among individuals with generalized anxiety
disorder, current major depression, remitted major depression, and healthy
controls in the context of an emotion evocation challenge.
Role: PI
R34
MH070682 Heimberg
(PI) 06/01/06-05/31/10
Development
of a novel, manualized treatment for generalized anxiety disorder that combines
elements of cognitive-behavior therapy with skills to promote adaptive emotion
regulation.
Role:
Co-Principal Investigator & PI of Subcontract to Kent State University
R21 AT002698-01 Hughes
(PI) 09/01/06-08/31/09
Randomized clinical trial comparing
Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction (MBSR) and Progressive Muscle Relaxation
(PMR) as augmentation to standard care (i.e., lifestyle improvement) for
unmedicated hypertension.
Role: Co-Principal Investigator
Kent-Summa
CTSTS Fresco
(PI) 07/01/06-08/31/09
Replicate
and extend previous findings showing that nondepressed individuals show a
protective bias and avoid negative stimuli (words and pictures) whereas
depressed individuals attend to emotional stimuli in an unbiased manner, and
hence lack this protective bias.
Role: PI
Ohio Board
of Regents Fresco
(PI) 06/01/04-05/31/07
This Research
Challenge Award identify point prevalence rates of major depressive disorder
and generalized anxiety disorder in a primary care medical population; and to
evaluate whether there are signature serum neurotransmitter profiles of
individuals as a function of current MDD and/or GAD.
Role: PI
R10
MH44119-13 Heimberg
(PI) 1/1/00-12/31/02
The major
goals of this project were to evaluate the acute efficacy of
cognitive-behavioral group therapy, phenelzine, the
combination of phenelzine and cognitive-behavioral
group therapy, and pill placebo in a 12-week trial in persons with social
phobia; 2-year continuation to complete study enrollment (plus no-cost
extension).
Role: Co-Investigator, Project Coordinator, and
Protocol Therapist
R10
MH57148-06 Heimberg
(PI) 7/1/96-6/30/02
The major
goals of this project are to compare the individual and combined effects of
cognitive-behavioral group therapy and phenelzine as
treatments for social phobia. Specifically, this study examines whether
responders to 12 weeks of acute treatment with one of the study treatments will
(1) show enhanced response over a 12 week intensive continuation phase, (2)
whether gains will be maintained or enhanced over a 28-week maintenance phase,
(3) whether gains will be maintained over a one-year follow-up period.
Furthermore, this study examines whether there is differential long-term
response to treatments among patients with generalized versus nongeneralized
social phobia.
Role: Co-Investigator, Project Coordinator, and
Protocol Therapist
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