Uncertainty about a possible future threat disrupts our ability to avoid it or to mitigate its
negative impact and thus results in anxiety. Here, we focus the broad literature on the …

Social isolation has been recognized as a major risk factor for morbidity and mortality in
humans for more than a quarter of a century. Although the focus of research has been on …

Background Within maintenance models of social anxiety disorder (SAD), a number of
cognitive and behavioural factors that drive the persistence of SAD have been proposed …

Anxiety and stress disorders are among the most prevalent neuropsychiatric disorders. In
recent years, multiple studies have examined brain regions and networks involved in anxiety …

Social anxiety disorder (SAD) is one of the most frequent anxiety disorders. The landmark
meta-analysis of functional neuroimaging studies by Etkin and Wager (2007) revealed …

Anxiety is one of the most common clinical problems among children, adolescents, and
adults with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), yet we know little about its etiology in the …

Impaired emotion regulation contributes to the development and severity of substance use
disorders (substance disorders). This review summarizes the literature on alterations in …

Recent research on classical fear-conditioning in the anxiety disorders has identified
overgeneralization of conditioned fear as an important conditioning correlate of anxiety …

Social anxiety disorder (SAD) is characterized by a fear of negative evaluation, negative self-
belief and extreme avoidance of social situations. These recurrent symptoms are thought to …

Recently, there has been a surge of interest in the possibility that microbial communities
inhabiting the human gut could affect cognitive development and increase risk for mental …