A shared threat-anticipation circuit is dynamically engaged at different moments by certain and uncertain threat

BR Cornwell, PR Didier, SE Grogans, AS Anderson… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Temporal dynamics play a central role in models of emotion:“fear” is widely conceptualized
as a phasic response to certain-and-imminent danger, whereas “anxiety” is a sustained …

Adolescent social anxiety is associated with diminished discrimination of anticipated threat and safety in the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis

J Hur, RM Tillman, HC Kim, P Didier, AS Anderson… - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
Social anxiety, which typically emerges in adolescence, lies on a continuum and, when
extreme, can be devastating, with clear functional impairment evident even at subdiagnostic …