Functionally, anxiety serves to increase vigilance towards aversive stimuli and improve the
ability to detect and avoid danger. We have recently shown, for instance, that anxiety …

Background Exaggerated amygdala and reduced ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC)
responsiveness during emotional processing have been reported in studies examining …

Background: Neuroimaging research has traditionally explored fear and anxiety in response
to discrete threat cues (eg, during fear conditioning). However, anxiety is a sustained …

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 …

An attentional bias to threat has been causally related to anxiety. Recent research has
linked nonconscious attentional bias to threat with variability in the integrity of the amygdala …

BACKGROUND: The cortical circuitry involved in conscious cognitive processes and the
subcortical circuitry involved in fear responses have been extensively studied with …

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

Anxiety is linked to compromised interactions between the amygdala and the dorsal and
ventral medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC). While numerous task-based neuroimaging studies …

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 …

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