| Literature DB >> 17030117 |
Rebecca E Cooney1, Lauren Y Atlas, Jutta Joormann, Fanny Eugène, Ian H Gotlib.
Abstract
Previous research has suggested that Social Anxiety Disorder (SAD) is associated with a tendency to interpret ambiguous social stimuli in a threatening manner. The present study used event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging to examine patterns of neural activation in response to the processing of neutral facial expressions in individuals diagnosed with SAD and healthy controls (CTLs). The SAD participants exhibited a different pattern of amygdala activation in response to neutral faces than did the CTL participants, suggesting a neural basis for the biased processing of ambiguous social information in SAD individuals.Entities:
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Year: 2006 PMID： 17030117 DOI： 10.1016/j.pscychresns.2006.05.003
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Psychiatry Res ISSN： 0165-1781 Impact factor: 3.222