Modulation of feedback processing by social context in social anxiety disorder (SAD)-an event-related potentials (ERPs) study.

ABSTRACT: The ability to learn from feedback, especially under social scrutiny, is an essential prerequisite for successful interaction with the environment. Patients suffering from social anxiety disorder (SAD) have been proposed to show altered processing of and learning from feedback, especially depending on social context. However, the neural basis and behavioral consequences of altered reinforcement learning in SAD are not clear yet. In the present event-related potentials (ERPs) study, 34 SAD patients and 30 healthy control subjects (HC) performed an adapted version of a probabilistic feedback learning task in two distinct social conditions. In the observation condition, participants were observed by a confederate; in the control condition, they performed the task without being observed. Patie

SUBMITTER: Voegler R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6423138 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature