Prominent cognitive theories postulate that an attentional bias toward threatening
information contributes to the etiology, maintenance, or exacerbation of fear and anxiety. In …

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 …

Cognitive models posit that social anxiety disorder (SAD) is associated with and maintained
by biased attention allocation vis-à-vis social threat. However, over the last decade, there …

Regions of the prefrontal and cingulate cortices play important roles in the regulation of
behaviors elicited by threat. Dissecting out their differential involvement will greatly increase …

Working memory capacity is one of the most important cognitive functions influencing
individual traits, such as attentional control, fluid intelligence, and also psychopathological …

Both anxiety and major depression disorder (MDD) were reported to involve a maladaptive
selective attention mechanism, associated with bias toward negative stimuli. Previous …

Behavioural studies have used spatial cueing designs extensively to investigate emotional
biases in individuals exhibiting clinical and sub-clinical anxiety. However, the neural …

While impaired attentional disengagement from threatening stimuli is thought to enhance
social anxiety, it is unclear when the impaired disengagement occurs accurately. We used a …

The current study aimed to explore whether self-reported attentional control (AC) and the
attentional network functioning would predict spontaneous emotion downregulation after …

Background Pediatric anxiety disorders are linked to dysfunction in multiple functional brain
networks, as well as to alterations in the allocation of spatial attention. We used network …