Tremendous progress has been made in basic neuroscience in recent decades. One area
that has been especially successful is research on how the brain detects and responds to …

Childhood and adolescence is the core risk phase for the development of symptoms and
syndromes of anxiety that may range from transient mild symptoms to full-blown anxiety …

Background. Many changes in social behavior take place during adolescence. Sexuality
and romantic interests emerge during this time, and adolescents spend more time with peers …

Unipolar depressive disorder in adolescence is common worldwide but often unrecognised.
The incidence, notably in girls, rises sharply after puberty and, by the end of adolescence, …

Background Various studies find relationships among anxiety and depressive disorders of
adolescence and adulthood. This study prospectively examines the magnitude of longitudinal …

Fear conditioning represents the process by which a neutral stimulus comes to evoke fear
following its repeated pairing with an aversive stimulus. Although fear conditioning has long …

Adolescents' propensity for risk-taking and reward-seeking behaviors suggests a heightened
sensitivity for reward, reflected by greater feedback-related activity changes in reward …

Objective: Extensive work implicates abnormal amygdala activation in emotional facial
expression processing in adults with callous-unemotional traits. However, no research has …

Current versions of the DSM and ICD have facilitated reliable clinical diagnosis and research.
However, problems have increasingly been documented over the past several years, both …

BACKGROUND:: Attention Bias Modification Treatment (ABMT) is a newly emerging,
promising treatment for anxiety disorders. Although recent randomized control trials (RCTs) …