Contents
List of Contributors vii
Preface xi
The Day Sue Almost Got Mad at Me xv
1 Intrusive Thinking: From Molecules to Free Will 1
Molecules and Circuits
2 What Are the Circuits That Mediate and Update Intrusive
Thinking? 11
3 Corticostriatal Intrusions 21
4 What Is the State-of-the-Art Toolbox for How Circuits
Mediate Behavior? 39
5 Convergent Experimental Systems for Dissecting the
Neurobiology of Intrusive Thought: A Road Map 53
Psychology and Cognition
6 How Can Intrusive Thinking Be Measured in Vivo and
Studied in the Context of Brain Mechanisms? 79
7 Conceptualizing Intrusive Thinking at the Level of
Psychological Mechanisms 97
8 Current Psychiatric Perspectives on Intrusive Thinking 113
9 Neuropsychological Mechanisms of Intrusive Thinking 125
Systems and Models
10 Networks Relevant to Psychopathology and
Intrusive Thought 187
11 Brain Networks for Cognitive Control: Four Unresolved
Questions 203
12 A Framework for Understanding Agency 229
13 Systems Approach to Intrusive Experiences 245
Interventions and Treatments
14 Psychological Interventions as They Relate to Intrusive
Thinking: Intrusive, Emotional Mental Imagery after
Traumatic and Negative Events 287
15 Pharmacological Interventions as They Relate to
Intrusive Thinking 315
16 Developing a Neuromodulation Tool to Suppress Intrusive
Thinking: Things We (Think We) Know and Things We Need
to Figure Out 329
17 Interventions and Implications 347
Bibliography 379
Subject Index 447
Strüngmann Forum Report Series 456
