Neurophysiological predictors of gaze-contingent music reward therapy among adults with social anxiety disorder.

ABSTRACT: Social anxiety disorder (SAD) is associated with fear of negative evaluation and heightened performance monitoring. The best-established treatments help only a subset of patients, and there are no well-established predictors of treatment response. The current study investigated whether individual differences in processing errors might predict response to gaze-contingent music reward therapy (GC-MRT). At baseline, healthy control subjects (HC; n = 20) and adults with SAD (n = 29), ages 19-43 years, completed the Flanker Task while electroencephalography (EEG) data were recorded. SAD participants then received up to 12 sessions over 8 weeks of GC-MRT, designed to train participants' attention away from threatening and toward neutral faces. Clinical assessments were completed 9- (post-treatme

SUBMITTER: Umemoto A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8557124 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature