Background: Social anxiety disorder is characterized by intense fear and avoidance of social
interactions and scrutiny by others. Although alterations in attentional control seem to play a …

Context Social anxiety disorder is thought to involve emotional hyperreactivity, cognitive
distortions, and ineffective emotion regulation. While the neural bases of emotional reactivity …

Background Despite advances in neurobiological research on Major Depressive Disorder
and Social Anxiety Disorder, little is known about the neural functioning of individuals with …

Does the biased attention toward social threats dwells on or disappears in patients with
social anxiety disorder (SAD)? We investigated the neural mechanism of attentional bias in …

Attentional control has an important role in attentional bias in social anxiety. This study
aimed to investigate whether attentional bias in social anxiety was caused by attentional …

Social anxiety—the fear of social embarrassment and negative evaluation by others—ranks
among people's worst fears, and it is often thought to impair task performance. We …

A critical cognitive symptom that is commonly involved in social anxiety and depression is
attentional deficit. However, the functional relationship between attentional deficit and these …

Background Social anxiety disorder (SAD) is characterized by excessive anxiety about
social interaction or performance situations, leading to avoidance and clinically significant …

Background Social anxiety disorder (SAD) is widely thought to be characterized by
heightened behavioral and limbic reactivity to socio-emotional stimuli. However, although …

In social anxiety disorder (SAD), anxiety reactions are triggered by attentional bias to social
threats that automatically appear in social situations. The present study aimed to investigate …