Anxiety can be distracting, disruptive, and incapacitating. Despite problems with empirical
replication of this phenomenon, one fruitful avenue of study has emerged from working …

Background Anxiety patients exhibit deficits in cognitive tasks that require prefrontal control
of attention, including those that tap working memory (WM). However, it is unclear whether …

Background: Neuroimaging research has traditionally explored fear and anxiety in response
to discrete threat cues (eg, during fear conditioning). However, anxiety is a sustained …

Background Anxiety is characterized by a bias towards threatening information, anxious
apprehension, and disrupted concentration. Previous research in healthy subjects suggests that …

Anxiety impairs the ability to think and concentrate, suggesting that the interaction between
emotion and cognition may elucidate the debilitating nature of pathological anxiety. Using a …

What is the basic structure of emotional experience and how is it represented in the human
brain? One highly influential theory, discrete basic emotions, proposes a limited set of basic …

Anxiety disorders constitute a sizeable worldwide health burden with profound social and
economic consequences. The symptoms are wide-ranging; from hyperarousal to difficulties …

From job interviews to the heat of battle, it is evident that people think and learn differently
when stressed. In fact, learning under stress may have long-term consequences; stress …

Functionally, anxiety serves to increase vigilance towards aversive stimuli and improve the
ability to detect and avoid danger. We have recently shown, for instance, that anxiety …

… that are also associated with increased coupling within this circuit (Vytal K, unpublished).
Finally, we have reported that mimicking a pharmacological symptom of anxiety in healthy …