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PSYCHIATRY RESEARCH-NEUROIMAGING
Volume 148, Issue 1, Pages 55-59Publisher
ELSEVIER IRELAND LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.pscychresns.2006.05.003
Keywords
amygdala; social phobia; social anxiety disorder; functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)
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- NIMH NIH HHS [MH59259] Funding Source: Medline
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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. (c) 2006 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.
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