Anxiety disorders are common and difficult to treat. Some cognitive models of anxiety
propose that attention bias to threat causes and maintains anxiety. This view led to the …

Objective The strong associations between child maltreatment and psychopathology have
generated interest in identifying neurodevelopmental processes that are disrupted following …

Due to their ability to capture attention, emotional stimuli tend to benefit from enhanced
perceptual processing, which can be helpful when such stimuli are task-relevant but …

Considerable work has advanced understanding of the nature, causes, management, and
prevention of anxiety disorders in children and adolescents over the past 30 years. Prior to …

Neuropsychiatric abnormalities may be broadly divided in two categories: disorders of
mood, affect, and behavior and abnormalities affecting cognition. Among these conditions …

Stress and the resulting increase in glucocorticoid levels have been implicated in the
pathophysiology of depressive disorders. We investigated the effects of chronic restraint …

Anxiety and stress disorders are among the most prevalent neuropsychiatric disorders. In
recent years, multiple studies have examined brain regions and networks involved in anxiety …

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 …

Anxiety disorders are a significant problem in the community, and recent neuroimaging
research has focused on determining the brain circuits that underlie them. Research on the …

Current knowledge on the architecture of exogenous attention (also called automatic, bottom-
up, or stimulus-driven attention, among other terms) has been mainly obtained from studies …