[HTML][HTML] The role of dlPFC laterality in the expression and regulation of anxiety

LK White, W Makhoul, M Teferi, YI Sheline… - …, 2023 - Elsevier
Anxiety disorders are the most common mental health disorder. Therefore, elucidating brain
mechanisms implicated in anxiety disorders is important avenue for developing novel …

A generalized workflow for conducting electric field–optimized, fMRI-guided, transcranial magnetic stimulation

NL Balderston, C Roberts, EM Beydler, ZD Deng… - Nature protocols, 2020 - nature.com
Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) is a noninvasive method to stimulate the cerebral
cortex that has applications in psychiatry, such as in the treatment of depression and anxiety …

The impact of pandemic-related worry on cognitive functioning and risk-taking

K da Silva Castanheira, M Sharp, AR Otto - PloS one, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Here, we sought to quantify the effects of experienced fear and worry, engendered by the
COVID-19 pandemic, on both cognitive abilities—speed of information processing, task-set …

Mechanistic link between right prefrontal cortical activity and anxious arousal revealed using transcranial magnetic stimulation in healthy subjects

NL Balderston, EM Beydler, C Roberts… - …, 2020 - nature.com
Much of the mechanistic research on anxiety focuses on subcortical structures such as the
amygdala; however, less is known about the distributed cortical circuit that also contributes …

Patients with anxiety disorders rely on bilateral dlPFC activation during verbal working memory

NL Balderston, E Flook, A Hsiung, J Liu… - Social cognitive and …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
One of the hallmarks of anxiety disorders is impaired cognitive control, affecting working
memory (WM). The dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (dlPFC) is critical for WM; however, it is still …

Beginning of the pandemic: COVID-19-elicited anxiety as a predictor of working memory performance

D Fellman, L Ritakallio, O Waris, J Jylkkä… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Increasing evidence indicates that the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is
associated with adverse psychological effects, including heightened levels of anxiety. This …

Room for feelings: A “working memory” account of affective processing

LF van Dillen, W Hofmann - Emotion Review, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
In the past decades, affective science has overwhelmingly demonstrated the unique
properties of affective information to bias our attention, memory, and decisions. At the same …

Effects of working memory training on different goals of cognitive reappraisal.

F Long, W Zhou, T Zhang, Z Zhang, R Zhou - Emotion, 2024 - psycnet.apa.org
Working memory training (WMT) has shown potential benefits in emotion regulation (ER),
mainly in terms of improved ability to downregulate negative emotions in cognitive …

Threat of shock increases excitability and connectivity of the intraparietal sulcus

NL Balderston, E Hale, A Hsiung, S Torrisi, T Holroyd… - elife, 2017 - elifesciences.org
Anxiety disorders affect approximately 1 in 5 (18%) Americans within a given 1 year period,
placing a substantial burden on the national health care system. Therefore, there is a critical …

[HTML][HTML] Continuous theta-burst stimulation to the right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex may increase potentiated startle in healthy individuals

M Teferi, W Makhoul, ZD Deng, DJ Oathes… - … Psychiatry Global Open …, 2023 - Elsevier
Background Convergent neuroimaging and neuromodulation studies implicate the right
dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (dlPFC) as a key region involved in anxiety-cognition …