Neural bases of social anxiety disorder: emotional reactivity and cognitive regulation during social and physical threat.

ABSTRACT:

Context

Social anxiety disorder is thought to involve emotional hyperreactivity, cognitive distortions, and ineffective emotion regulation. While the neural bases of emotional reactivity to social stimuli have been described, the neural bases of emotional reactivity and cognitive regulation during social and physical threat, and their relationship to social anxiety symptom severity, have yet to be investigated.

Objective

To investigate behavioral and neural correlates of emotional reactivity and cognitive regulation in patients and controls during processing of social and physical threat stimuli.

Design

Participants were trained to implement cognitive-linguistic regulation of emotional reactivity induced by social (harsh facial expressions) and physical (violent scene

SUBMITTER: Goldin PR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4142809 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature