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    "title": "TAP reading note: The perseverative cognition hypothesis: a review of worry, prolonged stress-related physiological activation, and health",
    "description": "The perseverative-cognition hypothesis proposes that worry and rumination can prolong activation before or after a stressful event. It directs attention to what continues after the external demand has stopped.",
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      "id": "brosschot-2006",
      "title": "The perseverative cognition hypothesis: a review of worry, prolonged stress-related physiological activation, and health",
      "authors": "Brosschot JF · Gerin W · Thayer JF",
      "journal": "Journal of psychosomatic research",
      "year": "2006",
      "url": "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpsychores.2005.06.074",
      "doi": "10.1016/j.jpsychores.2005.06.074",
      "pmid": "16439263"
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      {
        "id": "brosschot-2006",
        "title": "The perseverative cognition hypothesis: a review of worry, prolonged stress-related physiological activation, and health",
        "authors": "Brosschot JF · Gerin W · Thayer JF",
        "journal": "Journal of psychosomatic research",
        "year": "2006",
        "url": "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpsychores.2005.06.074",
        "doi": "10.1016/j.jpsychores.2005.06.074",
        "pmid": "16439263"
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      {
        "id": "finding",
        "title": "What the study found",
        "paragraphs": [
          "The perseverative-cognition hypothesis proposes that worry and rumination can prolong activation before or after a stressful event. It directs attention to what continues after the external demand has stopped."
        ]
      },
      {
        "id": "limits",
        "title": "Scope & limitations",
        "paragraphs": [
          "Theoretical review of worry, rumination, anticipation and physiological activation.",
          "The paper develops a hypothesis with preliminary supporting evidence. It does not imply that all reflection is harmful or that a thought can be converted into a measurable quantity of allostatic load."
        ]
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      {
        "id": "sample",
        "title": "Population & sample",
        "paragraphs": [
          "Theoretical review of worry, rumination, anticipation and physiological activation."
        ]
      },
      {
        "id": "exposure",
        "title": "Exposure or intervention",
        "paragraphs": [
          "Persistent worry, rumination and anticipatory stress."
        ]
      },
      {
        "id": "outcomes",
        "title": "Outcomes",
        "paragraphs": [
          "Cardiovascular, endocrine, immune and neurovisceral activation discussed across studies."
        ]
      },
      {
        "id": "duration",
        "title": "Time frame",
        "paragraphs": [
          "Activation before and after events; no single observation period across the review."
        ]
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          "Not yet checked against the full publication."
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          "Not yet checked against the full publication."
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          "Based on the original publication’s abstract and bibliographic record. This is a selected reading note, not a systematic appraisal."
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