Increased attentional bias to threat has been identified as a causal mechanism in the
development of anxiety. As such, attention bias modification (ABM) was conceived as a …

Context Considerable work implicates abnormal neural activation and disrupted attention to
facial-threat cues in adult anxiety disorders. However, in pediatric anxiety, no research has …

Background Development of corticoamygdala circuitry underlies the maturation of emotion
processing and regulation, and age-related changes in amygdala connectivity with anterior …

Many neurocognitive models of anxiety emphasize the importance of a hyper-responsive
threat-detection system centered on the amygdala, with recent accounts incorporating a role …

A chronic tendency to avoid novelty is often the result of a temperamental bias called
inhibited temperament, and is associated with increased risk for anxiety disorders …

Increased amygdala activation is consistently found in patients suffering from social anxiety
disorder (SAD), a psychiatric condition characterized by an intense fear of social situations …

An impairment of attentional control in the face of threat-related distracters is well
established for high-anxious individuals. Beyond that, it has been hypothesized that high …

Dispositional anxiety is a trait-like phenotype that confers increased risk for a range of
debilitating neuropsychiatric disorders. Like many patients with anxiety disorders …

Background Trait anxiety is considered a susceptible factor for stress‐related disorders, and
is characterized by abnormal brain activity and connectivity in the regions related to …

Spatial attention has been argued to be adaptive by enhancing the processing of visual
stimuli within the 'spotlight of attention'. We previously reported that crude threat cues …