Scholars@Duke
Yanyan Shan

Selected Publications

The Properties of Involuntary and Voluntary Autobiographical Memories in Chinese Patients with Depression and Healthy Individuals

Journal Article Cognitive Therapy and Research · December 1, 2025 Background: Research on depression has largely focused on negative intrusive memories with little research on general involuntary memories as they occur in everyday life. In addition, all studies have been conducted on Western participants, and there are n ... Full text Cite

Involuntary autobiographical memories as a transdiagnostic factor in mental disorders.

Journal Article Clinical psychology review · March 2025 Involuntary autobiographical memories are memories of personal events that come to mind with no preceding retrieval attempts. They have been studied broadly in autobiographical memory for decades and shown to be common and mostly positive in everyday life. ... Full text Cite

Network analysis of misophonia symptoms using the Duke Misophonia Questionnaire.

Journal Article J Affect Disord · January 15, 2025 BACKGROUND: Misophonia is a complex disorder characterized by a strong aversion to specific sounds, leading to significant distress and impairment. While the Duke Misophonia Questionnaire (DMQ) is one of the most comprehensive and validated measures for as ... Full text Link to item Cite

Misophonia is related to stress but not directly with traumatic stress.

Journal Article PLoS One · 2024 The relationship between misophonia, stress, and traumatic stress has not been well characterized scientifically. This study aimed to explore the relationships among misophonia, stress, lifetime traumatic events, and traumatic stress. A community sample of ... Full text Link to item Cite

Treatment of Misophonia

Journal Article Advances in Psychiatry and Behavioral Health · September 1, 2023 Full text Open Access Cite

Differences in verbal and spatial working memory in patients with bipolar II and unipolar depression: an MSI study

Journal Article BMC Psychiatry · December 2021 AbstractBackgroundDepressive symptoms could be similarly expressed in bipolar and unipolar disorder. However, changes in cognition and brain networks might be quite distinct. We aimed to f ... Full text Cite

The Effectiveness of Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing Toward Adults With Major Depressive Disorder: A Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials

Journal Article Frontiers in Psychiatry · August 6, 2021 The practice-based evidence suggests that it is possible to use eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) to treat major depressive disorder (MDD), but its specific efficacy is unknown. A systematic search was carried out for randomized ... Full text Cite