Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes

Trait Anxiety Effects on Late Phase Threatening Speech Processing: Evidence from EEG

The paper examines how trait anxiety affects late-phase processing of threatening speech using EEG and finds a strong association between ERP late positivity and anxiety levels.

Intolerance of uncertainty is associated with heightened responding in the prefrontal cortex during instructed outcome uncertainty of threat

The paper examines how intolerance of uncertainty relates to neural responses in the prefrontal cortex during uncertain threat scenarios.

Neurocognitive Heterogeneity in Social Anxiety Disorder: The Role of Self-Referential Processing and Childhood Maltreatment

This study identifies two subgroups of social anxiety disorder patients with distinct neurocognitive profiles linked to self-referential processing and childhood maltreatment.

Oxazepam and cognitive reappraisal: a randomised experiment

This study examines the effect of oxazepam on cognitive reappraisal in healthy males, finding reduced unpleasantness ratings to negative images but no impact on reappraisal effectiveness.

Attentional bias to threat and gray mater volume morphology in high anxious individuals

The paper examines the relationship between gray matter volume and attentional bias to threat in highly anxious individuals, finding new associations in specific brain regions and suggesting sex-specific contributions.

State anxiety biases estimates of uncertainty during reward learning in volatile environments

The paper shows that state anxiety in healthy individuals leads to biased uncertainty estimates and impaired reward learning in volatile environments.

Anxiety and the neurobiology of temporally uncertain threat anticipation

This study investigates the neural circuits involved in anticipating temporally uncertain and certain threat, revealing co-localized but functionally distinct brain regions associated with anxiety.

Associations between aversive learning processes and transdiagnostic psychiatric symptoms revealed by large-scale phenotyping

The paper links aversive learning processes to psychiatric symptoms using computational modeling and behavioral data from 400 subjects.

Semantic and Prosodic Threat Processing in Trait Anxiety.

This study examines how trait anxiety affects threat processing through semantic and prosodic channels using dichotic listening tasks and Bayesian analysis, finding differential reaction time effects under time pressure.

The Threat of Scream paradigm: A tool for studying sustained physiological and subjective anxiety

The paper introduces the Threat-of-Scream paradigm as a method to induce sustained anxiety, showing it reliably increases subjective and physiological anxiety measures over time.

Anxiety, avoidance, and sequential evaluation

This paper proposes a computational model of anxiety based on pessimistic beliefs about future avoidance, showing how such biases can explain various anxiety-related behaviors and phenomena.

Emotional recognition training modifies neural response to emotional faces but does not improve mood in healthy volunteers with high levels of depressive symptoms

This paper investigates the effects of emotion recognition training on neural responses and mood in individuals with high depressive symptoms, finding neural changes but no mood improvement.

D-Cycloserine as Adjunct to Brief Computerised CBT for Spider Fear: Effects on Fear, Behaviour, and Cognitive Biases

This study examines if D-cycloserine enhances the effects of computerised CBT on spider fear by assessing changes in fear, behaviour, and cognitive biases.

Impaired early visual categorization of fear in social anxiety

The paper investigates early visual categorization of fear in social anxiety, finding impaired categorical perception in low trait social anxiety individuals compared to high trait social anxiety individuals.

Reward Prediction Error Signaling during Reinforcement Learning in Social Anxiety Disorder is altered by Social Observation

This study examines how prediction error signaling during reinforcement learning in social anxiety disorder (SAD) is altered by social observation, finding increased DMPFC coupling to prediction errors and reduced ventral pallidum connectivity in SAD.

What do I do now? Intolerance of uncertainty is associated with discrete patterns of anticipatory physiological responding to different uncertain contexts

This study examines how intolerance of uncertainty (IU) influences anticipatory physiological responses in different uncertain contexts, finding context-specific effects on skin conductance and corrugator supercilii activity.

Out with the old and in with the new: The role of intolerance of uncertainty in reversal of threat and safety

This study examines how intolerance of uncertainty (IU) affects threat learning and reversal in a paradigm where threat and safety contingencies are reversed, finding that higher IU is linked to stronger physiological responses to new threat cues during reversal.

Facial Emotions Perceptions In Young Female Students With High-Level Anxiety And Subclinical Panic Disorder. ERP And Behavioral Study

This study examines facial emotion processing in young female students with panic disorder using ERP and behavioral measures, finding increased reactivity to threatening facial stimuli and altered neural processing patterns.

Passive Audio Vocal Capture and Measurement in the Evaluation of Selective Mutism

This paper explores using passive audio capture to quantify vocalization features in children with selective mutism, presenting pilot study feasibility results and design limitations.

Metanalysis of genome-wide association studies for panic disorder suggest pathways and mechanisms of pathogenesis

This study performs a meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies for panic disorder, identifying 25 SNPs and 20 causal genes involved in immune, inflammatory, and developmental pathways.

Towards an Unconscious Neurotherapy for Common Fears

This paper introduces a method to reprogram unconscious fear responses in the human brain using fMRI decoding and monetary reward, showing reduced physiological fear responses in a double-blind study.

Dorsomedial prefrontal cortex activity during reinforcement learning discriminates response to Cognitive Behavioural Therapy in depression.

This study identifies dorsomedial prefrontal cortex activity patterns during reinforcement learning that predict response to computerised CBT in depression.