Anxiety is experienced in response to threats that are distal or uncertain, involving changes
in one's subjective state, autonomic responses, and behavior. Defensive and physiologic …

Brain systems that promote the maintenance of homeostasis in face of stress have
significant adaptive value. A growing body of work across species demonstrates a critical …

Uncertainty about a possible future threat disrupts our ability to avoid it or to mitigate its
negative impact and thus results in anxiety. Here, we focus the broad literature on the …

Although it has been shown that immersive virtual reality (IVR) can be used to induce
illusions of ownership over a virtual body (VB), information on whether this changes implicit …

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

Social anxiety disorder (SAD) is one of the most frequent anxiety disorders. The landmark
meta-analysis of functional neuroimaging studies by Etkin and Wager (2007) revealed …

Biases of emotional attention are believed to be central to human (mal) adaptation and
multiple forms of psychopathology. Yet fundamental questions remain regarding the nature …

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

Psychological stress is implicated in the etiology of many common chronic diseases and
mental health disorders. Recent research suggests that inflammation may be a key …

The importance of the amygdala as a salience detector and in emotional learning is now
well accepted. The mechanisms that regulate and inhibit the amygdala, however, are less …