Abstract
Previous research has suggested that Social Anxiety Disorder (SAD) is associated with a tendency to interpret ambiguous social stimuli in a threatening manner. The present study used event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging to examine patterns of neural activation in response to the processing of neutral facial expressions in individuals diagnosed with SAD and healthy controls (CTLs). The SAD participants exhibited a different pattern of amygdala activation in response to neutral faces than did the CTL participants, suggesting a neural basis for the biased processing of ambiguous social information in SAD individuals.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 55-59 |
| Number of pages | 5 |
| Journal | Psychiatry Research - Neuroimaging |
| Volume | 148 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Nov 22 2006 |
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Keywords
- Amygdala
- Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)
- Social anxiety disorder
- Social phobia
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Psychiatry and Mental health
- Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging
- Biological Psychiatry
- Psychology(all)
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Amygdala activation in the processing of neutral faces in social anxiety disorder : Is neutral really neutral? / Cooney, Rebecca E.; Atlas, Lauren Y.; Joormann, Jutta; Eugène, Fanny; Gotlib, Ian H.
In: Psychiatry Research - Neuroimaging, Vol. 148, No. 1, 22.11.2006, p. 55-59.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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