Anxiety disorders belong to the most prevalent psychiatric disorders, justifying a high motivation for high-standard diagnostic and therapeutic approaches. To date, check-up tools for psychological prophylaxis are outstandingly dissatisfying. Moreover, both pharmacological and psychological interventions are not effective in all patients. These shortcomings reflect the unsatisfied need for theoretical approaches that allow for an individual risk definition or relapse indication and the prediction of individual treatment success. Disorder-specific distortions of information processing are increasingly appreciated as an important link in meeting these needs. The author Andrea Reinecke extensively reviews recent research on attention and memory for emotional material in anxiety disorders and its relevance in the enhancement of diagnostic and therapeutic strategies in anxiety. Most importantly, she defines a surprisingly underrepresented gap in recent cognitive bias research and convincingly highlights its clinical potential: the working memory. The book addresses medical science researchers and students, but is also suitable and enriching for intrigued laities.

Drawing on a broad range of disciplines, the contributions gathered in this volume focus particular attention on early state formation, development of material cultures, and the transfer of iconographic concepts from late perhistoric to historic times. With chapters on the archaeology and history of the Indonesian archipelago, the multi-directional flows of Buddhist art in Southeast Asia, art and architecture of the Khmers, traditions and actions of various ethnic groups, specific regional phenomena are addressed in order to provide a resource for comparative perspectives. Connecting Empires and States contains 29 papers presented at the 13th International Conference of the European Association of Southeast Asian Archaeologists (EurASEAA). Held in Berlin in 2010, the conference was jointly organised by the Institute of Ancient Near Eastern Archaeology at the Freie Universitat Berlin and the German Archaeological Institute. The peer-reviewed proceedings bring together archaeologists, art historians and philologists who share a common interest in Southeast Asia's early past.