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Trait anxiety and impoverished prefrontal control of attention.

Abstract:

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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10.1038/nn.2242

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Journal:
Nature neuroscience
Volume:
12
Issue:
1
Pages:
92-98
Publication date:
2009-01-01
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EISSN:
1546-1726
ISSN:
1097-6256
Language:
English
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pubs:383285
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uuid:07d012bf-b39a-4ed6-b928-15ff47b05078
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pubs:383285
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383285
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2013-11-16

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