Anxiety disorders constitute a sizeable worldwide health burden with profound social and
economic consequences. The symptoms are wide-ranging; from hyperarousal to difficulties …

Individuals with anxiety disorders demonstrate altered cognitive performance including (1)
cognitive biases towards negative stimuli (affective biases) and (2) increased cognitive …

Anxiety has wide reaching effects on cognition; evidenced most prominently by the
“difficulties concentrating” seen in anxiety disorders, and by adaptive harm-avoidant …

Threat-anticipatory defensive responses have evolved to promote survival in a dynamic
world. While inherently adaptive, aberrant expression of defensive responses to potential …

Anxiety can be hugely disruptive to everyday life. Anxious individuals show increased
attentional capture by potential signs of danger, and interpret expressions, comments and …

Several theoretical frameworks have suggested that anxiety/stress impairs cognitive
performance. A competing prediction is made by attentional narrowing models that predict …

Anxiety impairs the ability to think and concentrate, suggesting that the interaction between
emotion and cognition may elucidate the debilitating nature of pathological anxiety. Using a …

Anxiety can be distracting, disruptive, and incapacitating. Despite problems with empirical
replication of this phenomenon, one fruitful avenue of study has emerged from working …

Attentional bias towards threat is implicated in the etiology and maintenance of anxiety
disorders. We examined the neural correlates of threat bias in anxious and nonanxious …

We review likely neurobiological substrates of cognitions related to fear and anxiety.
Cognitive processes are linked to abnormal early activity reflecting hypervigilance in …