This review aims to synthesise a large pre-clinical and clinical literature related to a
hypothesised role of the locus coeruleus norepinephrine system in responses to acute and …

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

Due to their ability to capture attention, emotional stimuli tend to benefit from enhanced
perceptual processing, which can be helpful when such stimuli are task-relevant but …

Current knowledge on the architecture of exogenous attention (also called automatic, bottom-
up, or stimulus-driven attention, among other terms) has been mainly obtained from studies …

A recent paradigm shift in systems neuroscience is the division of the human brain into
functional networks. Functional networks are collections of brain regions with strongly …

Although the everyday decision-making of clinically anxious individuals is clearly influenced
by their excessive fear and worry, the relationship between anxiety and decision-making …

The current view of brain organization supports the notion that there is a considerable
degree of functional specialization and that many regions can be conceptualized as …

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 …

BACKGROUND: Adolescence is a transition period from childhood to adulthood that is often
characterized by emotional instability. This period is also a time of increased incidence of …

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