Clinical anxiety promotes excessive response inhibition.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Laboratory tasks to delineate anxiety disorder features are used to refine classification and inform our understanding of etiological mechanisms. The present study examines laboratory measures of response inhibition, specifically the inhibition of a pre-potent motor response, in clinical anxiety. Data on associations between anxiety and response inhibition remain inconsistent, perhaps because of dissociable effects of clinical anxiety and experimentally manipulated state anxiety. Few studies directly assess the independent and interacting effects of these two anxiety types (state v. disorder) on response inhibition. The current study accomplished this goal, by manipulating state anxiety in healthy and clinically anxious individuals while they complete a response inhibiti

SUBMITTER: Grillon C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6100803 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature