{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["24(1)"],"submitter":["Gunther V"],"funding":["Universität Leipzig"],"pubmed_abstract":["Trait anxiety refers to a stable tendency to experience fears and worries across many situations. High trait anxiety is a vulnerability factor for the development of psychopathologies. Self-reported trait anxiety appears to be associated with an automatic processing advantage for threat-related information. Self-report measures assess aspects of the explicit self-concept of anxiety. Indirect measures can tap into the implicit self-concept of anxiety. We examined automatic brain responsiveness to non-conscious threat as a function of trait anxiety using functional magnetic resonance imaging. Besides a self-report instrument, we administered the Implicit Association Test (IAT) to assess anxiety. We used a gender-decision paradigm presenting brief (17 ms) and backward-masked facial expressions depicting disgust and fear. Explicit trait anxiety was not associated with brain responsiveness to non-conscious threat. However, a relation of the implicit self-concept of anxiety with masked fear processing in the thalamus, precentral gyrus, and lateral prefrontal cortex was observed. We provide evidence that a measure of the implicit self-concept of anxiety is a valuable predictor of automatic neural responses to threat in cortical and subcortical areas. Hence, implicit anxiety measures could be a useful addition to explicit instruments. Our data support the notion that the thalamus may constitute an important neural substrate in biased non-conscious processing in anxiety."],"journal":["BMC neuroscience"],"pagination":["12"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC9901098"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"pubmed_title":["Non-conscious processing of fear faces: a function of the implicit self-concept of anxiety."],"pmcid":["PMC9901098"],"pubmed_authors":["Webelhorst C","Lobsien D","Kersting A","Suslow T","Gunther V","Hoffmann KT","Pecher J","Bodenschatz CM","Mucha S","Egloff B"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"Non-conscious processing of fear faces: a function of the implicit self-concept of anxiety.","description":"Trait anxiety refers to a stable tendency to experience fears and worries across many situations. High trait anxiety is a vulnerability factor for the development of psychopathologies. Self-reported trait anxiety appears to be associated with an automatic processing advantage for threat-related information. Self-report measures assess aspects of the explicit self-concept of anxiety. Indirect measures can tap into the implicit self-concept of anxiety. We examined automatic brain responsiveness to non-conscious threat as a function of trait anxiety using functional magnetic resonance imaging. Besides a self-report instrument, we administered the Implicit Association Test (IAT) to assess anxiety. We used a gender-decision paradigm presenting brief (17 ms) and backward-masked facial expressions depicting disgust and fear. Explicit trait anxiety was not associated with brain responsiveness to non-conscious threat. However, a relation of the implicit self-concept of anxiety with masked fear processing in the thalamus, precentral gyrus, and lateral prefrontal cortex was observed. We provide evidence that a measure of the implicit self-concept of anxiety is a valuable predictor of automatic neural responses to threat in cortical and subcortical areas. Hence, implicit anxiety measures could be a useful addition to explicit instruments. Our data support the notion that the thalamus may constitute an important neural substrate in biased non-conscious processing in anxiety.","dates":{"release":"2023-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2023 Feb","modification":"2025-05-29T19:43:21.165Z","creation":"2025-05-29T19:43:21.165Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC9901098","cross_references":{"pubmed":["36740677"],"doi":["10.1186/s12868-023-00781-9"]}}