Brain mediators of biased social learning of self-perception in social anxiety disorder.

ABSTRACT: Social anxiety disorder (SAD) is characterized by an excessive fear of social evaluation and a persistently negative view of the self. Here we test the hypothesis that negative biases in brain responses and in social learning of self-related information contribute to the negative self-image and low self-esteem characteristic of SAD. Adult participants diagnosed with social anxiety (N = 21) and matched controls (N = 23) rated their performance and received social feedback following a stressful public speaking task. We investigated how positive versus negative social feedback altered self-evaluation and state self-esteem and used functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) to characterize brain responses to positive versus negative feedback. Compared to controls, participants with SAD updat

SUBMITTER: Koban L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10475036 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature