Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes

Anxiety state-related task disengagement varies with trait anxiety

This study investigates how state anxiety affects task disengagement in relation to trait anxiety, finding that trait anxiety reduces the impact of state anxiety on task disengagement.

Toward an Objective Assessment of Fight-or-Flight System Function in Anxiety Disorders: Startle Reflex Modulation in Threat Coping Contexts as a Candidate Neurophysiological Marker of Disrupted Defense System Operation

The paper assesses startle reflex modulation in threat coping contexts to evaluate defensive system function in anxiety disorders and finds correlations with anxiety, depression, and worry symptoms.

Internet-delivered cognitive behavioral therapy is associated with distinct blood small RNA profiles in panic disorder

This study identifies distinct blood small RNA profiles in panic disorder patients before and after internet-delivered cognitive behavioral therapy, linking specific microRNAs and tRFs to treatment response and immune pathways.

A longitudinal naturalistic fMRI study of trait anxiety and cross-phase consistency in subjective fear signature expression

This study examines how trait anxiety relates to cross-phase consistency in subjective fear neural signatures using longitudinal fMRI data.

Error-Related Memory Biases Are Specific to Social Stimuli for Socially Anxious Individuals

The paper shows socially anxious individuals have a memory bias for errors specifically when social stimuli are present, not for non-social stimuli.

Mapping the neural circuitry of cognitive restructuring in depressive and anxiety disorders

The paper investigates neural circuitry differences during cognitive restructuring in depressive and anxiety disorders using fMRI, finding distinct activation and connectivity patterns associated with symptom severity.

The heritability of reinforcement learning parameters and their association with anxiety

The paper examines the heritability of reinforcement learning parameters related to anxiety, finding extinction learning rates correlate with anxiety severity but show no heritability, while safety learning rates have modest heritability but no genetic overlap with anxiety.

Subclinical anxiety is associated with reduced self-distancing and enhanced self-blame-related connectivity between anterior temporal and subgenual cingulate cortices

This study links subclinical anxiety with increased self-blame and specific neural connectivity patterns involving the anterior temporal lobe and subgenual cingulate cortex during guilt memory reliving.

Self-esteem modulates beneficial causal attributions in the formation of novel self-beliefs

This study examines how self-esteem and depression influence causal attributions and self-belief formation through a computational model of learning.

Neural dynamics underlying the persistence of perseverative thought in depression and anxiety

This study investigates how neural dynamics in depression and anxiety contribute to the persistence of perseverative thought using fMRI and network control theory.

Social Anxiety Increases Autonomic and Visuocortical Generalization of Conditioned Aversive Responses to Faces

This study shows that social anxiety disorder is linked to broader generalization of aversive responses to faces, with increased visuocortical and pupil dilation responses to facial stimuli.

Heightened subcortical reactivity to uncertain-threat is associated with future internalizing symptoms, conditional on stress exposure

The paper identifies heightened subcortical reactivity to uncertain-threat as a predictor of future internalizing symptoms in individuals with low stress exposure.

Absence of Systematic Effects of Internalizing Psychopathology on Learning Under Uncertainty

This study investigates the relationship between internalizing psychopathology and learning under uncertainty, finding no systematic effect on learning rates or task performance.

SpiDa-MRI, behavioral and (f)MRI data of adults with fear of spiders

The paper presents a database of fMRI and behavioral data from adults with spider phobia, including neural patterns and psychological dimensions.

Implicit Emotional Biases in Anxiety and Depression: A Fast Periodic Visual Stimulation Study

This study uses FPVS to show that anxiety patients have stronger neural responses to negative stimuli and reduced responses to high-arousal stimuli, while those with comorbid depression show blunted responses across brain regions.

Social Anxiety Alters Theory of Mind Activation and Intersubject Neural Variability During Movie Viewing

This study examines how social anxiety affects Theory of Mind activation and neural variability during movie viewing, finding reduced left pSTS activation and distinct neural response patterns in socially anxious individuals.

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

This study investigates how social anxiety in adolescents affects neural responses to anticipated social threat, finding reduced discrimination in the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis.

Aging increases the distinctiveness of emotional brain states across rumination, worry, and positive thinking

This study finds that aging increases the distinctiveness of rumination and worry brain states while reducing anxiety responses, potentially improving emotional well-being.

Towards a mechanistic understanding of the role of error monitoring and memory in social anxiety

This study investigates how error monitoring and memory biases contribute to social anxiety using EEG and a novel task, finding that higher social anxiety is linked to greater error-related theta synchrony and memory biases for error events.

Social anxiety links of amygdala switch cross puberty

The paper examines how social anxiety relates to amygdala geometry changes during puberty, finding shifts in amygdala volume associations with social anxiety across developmental stages.

A neural signature for the subjective experience of threat anticipation under uncertainty

The paper develops a neural signature that predicts anxious arousal during uncertain threat anticipation using fMRI and multivariate modeling.

Specific amygdala and hippocampal subfield volumes in social anxiety disorder and their relation to clinical characteristics; an international mega-analysis

This study identifies specific amygdala and hippocampal subfield volume differences in social anxiety disorder compared to healthy controls, with associations to comorbid conditions.

Amygdala habituation during exposure is associated with failure to reduce phobic symptoms

This study examines amygdala responses during exposure therapy for spider phobia, finding that increased amygdala activation correlates with better clinical outcomes, supporting the inhibitory learning model over the habituation model.

The unique face of anxious depression: Increased sustained threat circuitry response during fear acquisition

The paper examines fear learning in individuals with major depressive disorder (MDD) and anxiety disorder plus MDD (AD+MDD), finding increased sustained threat circuitry response in AD+MDD during fear acquisition.

Topographical similarity of cortical thickness represents generalized anxiety symptoms in adolescence

The paper identifies a cortical thickness topography in adolescents associated with generalized anxiety symptoms using inter-subject representational similarity analysis.

Approach-avoidance reinforcement learning as a computational and translational model of anxiety-related avoidance

This paper develops a translational approach-avoidance reinforcement learning task to study anxiety-related avoidance, finding that higher task-induced anxiety correlates with greater punishment sensitivity and avoidance behavior.

Context and Domain Matter: The Error-Related Negativity in Peer Presence Predicts Fear of Negative Evaluation, not Global Social Anxiety, in Adolescents

Gender impacts the relationship between mood disorder symptoms and effortful avoidance performance

The paper examines how gender influences the relationship between anxiety and depression scores and performance in effortful avoidance and reward-seeking tasks.

The rosy future paradox: Positive future thinking without task relevance enhances negative biases and anxiety for aversive events

This study shows that task-relevant positive future thinking reduces stress and anxiety during a stressful task, while task-irrelevant positive thoughts increase stress reactivity and negative biases.

Self-reassurance reduces neural and self-report reactivity to negative life events

This study shows that self-reassurance reduces neural and self-report reactivity to negative life events compared to self-criticism.