Excessive fear responses to uncertain threat are a key feature of anxiety disorders (ADs),
though most mechanistic work considers adults. As ADs onset in childhood and confer risk …

Variation in prefrontal cortex neuroanatomy has been previously associated with elevated
physiological responses to anticipated aversive events. The extent to which such …

Children's emotional development is highly dependent on caregiving. When caregiving is
disrupted, children are at elevated risk for psychopathology, such as anxiety disorders. Thus …

The ability to adaptively transfer acquired fear to novel situations is fundamental for survival
in everchanging environments and may contribute to the emergence and persistence of …

Accurate recognition of facial affect can inform our understanding of others' emotions and
state of mind. Children and adults with anxiety are more likely to interpret ambiguous or …

Extinction learning involves repeatedly presenting a conditioned stimulus (CS) that
previously signaled a threat, but now occurs without the expected threat. This process is …

It is difficult to turn on the news without hearing mention of global threat, looming threat, or
inevitable threat. In addition to everyday risks, the prospect of known and unknown dangers …