BACKGROUND: A tendency to orient attention toward threatening stimuli may be involved in
the etiology of anxiety disorders. In keeping with this, both psychological and …

Background A pattern of attentional bias for threatening information is thought to be involved
in the etiology of anxiety. Consistent with this idea, cognitive training techniques directly …

Highlights•Anxious individuals and those at risk show attention biases to irrelevant
threats.•These attention biases are related to imbalanced prefrontal-limbic-sensory …

Recently, researchers have investigated the causal nature of attentional bias for threat (AB)
in the maintenance of anxiety disorders by experimentally manipulating it. They found that …

A negative bias in the deployment of attention to emotional stimuli is commonly found in both
anxiety and depression. Recent work has highlighted that such biases are causally related …

A wealth of research demonstrates attentional biases toward threat in the anxiety disorders.
Several models have been advanced to explain these biases in anxiety, yet the mechanisms …

Threat-related stimuli are strong competitors for attention, particularly in anxious individuals.
We used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) with healthy human volunteers to …

Research on information processing biases has been motivated by the hope that it would
lead to new and more efficient psychotherapeutic interventions. The literature is abundant …

According to cognitive models of anxiety disorders, attentional bias for threatening
information is a vulnerability factor to the etiology and maintenance of anxiety. A recently …

BackgroundBehavioral studies show that attention training can alter threat bias, influence
vulnerability to stress and reduce clinical anxiety symptoms. The aim of this study was to …