Defensive startle response to emotional social cues in social anxiety |
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Authors: | Matthew Garner Greg ClarkeHannah Graystone David S. Baldwin |
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Affiliation: | a School of Psychology, University of Southampton, UKb Division of Clinical Neuroscience, School of Medicine, University of Southampton, UK |
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Abstract: | Potentiation of fear-related defense behaviours coordinated by the amygdala in response to environmental threat characterizes several anxiety disorders. We compared eye-blink startle responses to startle probes delivered during the presentation of emotional and neutral social cues in high and low generalized social anxiety. Socially anxious individuals exhibited larger startle responses to emotional (positive and negative) relative to neutral social cues, compared to non-anxious individuals. |
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Keywords: | Anxiety Amygdala Social cognition |
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