Journal article
Trait anxiety and impoverished prefrontal control of attention.
- Abstract:
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Many neurocognitive models of anxiety emphasize the importance of a hyper-responsive threat-detection system centered on the amygdala, with recent accounts incorporating a role for prefrontal mechanisms in regulating attention to threat. Here we investigated whether trait anxiety is associated with a much broader dysregulation of attentional control. Volunteers performed a response-conflict task under conditions that posed high or low demands on attention. High trait-anxious individuals showe...
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- Publication status:
- Published
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- Journal:
- Nature neuroscience
- Volume:
- 12
- Issue:
- 1
- Pages:
- 92-98
- Publication date:
- 2009-01-01
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1546-1726
- ISSN:
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1097-6256
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- Language:
- English
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- Pubs id:
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pubs:383285
- UUID:
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uuid:07d012bf-b39a-4ed6-b928-15ff47b05078
- Local pid:
- pubs:383285
- Source identifiers:
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383285
- Deposit date:
- 2013-11-16
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- Copyright date:
- 2009
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