KRAUS, Jakub, Andreas FRICK, Håkan FISCHER, Katarina HOWNER, Mats FREDRIKSON and Tomas FURMARK. Amygdala reactivity and connectivity during social and non-social aversive stimulation in social anxiety disorder. PSYCHIATRY RESEARCH-NEUROIMAGING. Clare: Elsevier Ireland, 2018, vol. 280, OCT 30 2018, p. 56-61. ISSN 0925-4927. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pscychresns.2018.08.012.
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Original name Amygdala reactivity and connectivity during social and non-social aversive stimulation in social anxiety disorder
Authors KRAUS, Jakub (703 Slovakia, guarantor, belonging to the institution), Andreas FRICK (752 Sweden), Håkan FISCHER (752 Sweden), Katarina HOWNER (752 Sweden), Mats FREDRIKSON (752 Sweden) and Tomas FURMARK (752 Sweden).
Edition PSYCHIATRY RESEARCH-NEUROIMAGING, Clare, Elsevier Ireland, 2018, 0925-4927.
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Original language English
Type of outcome Article in a journal
Field of Study 30215 Psychiatry
Country of publisher Ireland
Confidentiality degree is not subject to a state or trade secret
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Impact factor Impact factor: 2.270
RIV identification code RIV/00216224:14110/18:00103532
Organization unit Faculty of Medicine
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pscychresns.2018.08.012
UT WoS 000443824900008
Keywords in English Social phobia; Emotional faces; International Affective Picture System; IAPS; fMRI; Fear
Tags 14110127, 14110222, podil, rivok
Tags International impact, Reviewed
Changed by Changed by: Mgr. Pavla Foltynová, Ph.D., učo 106624. Changed: 11/3/2019 15:29.
Abstract
Social anxiety disorder (SAD) is characterized by exaggerated amygdala reactivity in response to symptom provocation, but it is unclear if such hyper-reactivity is elicited by disorder-specific challenges only or characterizes reactions to aversive stimuli in general. Here, using functional magnetic resonance imaging in 14 patients with SAD, as compared to 12 healthy controls, we found that amygdala hyper-reactivity is confined to disorder-relevant social stimulation. SAD patients displayed increased amygdala reactivity to fearful as compared to neutral facial pictures, but not in response to generally aversive but mainly non-social stimulation when compared to neutral pictorial stimuli taken from the International Affective Picture System. The increased amygdala reactivity was not mediated by an altered prefrontal inhibition among SAD patients as compared to controls, suggesting increased bottom-up processes rather than attenuated top-down control. In conclusion, the enhanced amygdala reactivity in SAD seems specific to socially relevant stimuli rather than aversive stimuli in general.
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