[HTML][HTML] High anxiety trait: a vulnerable phenotype for stress-induced depression

M Weger, C Sandi - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2018 - Elsevier
A great deal of research aims to identify risk factors related to individual vulnerability to
develop stress-induced psychopathologies. Here, we summarize evidence that point at …

Modeling anxiety in healthy humans: a key intermediate bridge between basic and clinical sciences

C Grillon, OJ Robinson, B Cornwell… - …, 2019 - nature.com
Animal models of anxiety disorders are important for elucidating neurobiological defense
mechanisms. However, animal models are limited when it comes to understanding the more …

A neural and behavioral trade-off between value and uncertainty underlies exploratory decisions in normative anxiety

KC Aberg, I Toren, R Paz - Molecular psychiatry, 2022 - nature.com
Exploration reduces uncertainty about the environment and improves the quality of future
decisions, but at the cost of provisional uncertain and suboptimal outcomes. Although …

The anxiety‐specific hippocampus–prefrontal cortex pathways links to procrastination through self‐control

R Zhang, Z Chen, B Hu, F Zhou… - Human Brain Map**, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Procrastination, which is defined as delaying an intended course of action despite negative
outcomes, is demonstrated to have a deal with negative emotion including trait anxiety …

Intrinsic functional connectivity of the central nucleus of the amygdala and bed nucleus of the stria terminalis

AX Gorka, S Torrisi, AJ Shackman, C Grillon, M Ernst - Neuroimage, 2018 - Elsevier
The central nucleus of the amygdala (CeA) and bed nucleus of the stria terminalis (BNST),
two nuclei within the central extended amygdala, function as critical relays within the …

Clinical anxiety promotes excessive response inhibition

C Grillon, OJ Robinson, K O'connell, A Davis… - Psychological …, 2017 - cambridge.org
BackgroundLaboratory tasks to delineate anxiety disorder features are used to refine
classification and inform our understanding of etiological mechanisms. The present study …

Morphological similarity of amygdala-ventral prefrontal pathways represents trait anxiety in younger and older adults

W Kim, MJ Kim - Proceedings of the National Academy of …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Stronger amygdala-ventral prefrontal white matter connectivity has been associated with
lower trait anxiety, possibly reflecting an increased capacity for efficient communication …

Irrelevant threats linger and affect behavior in high anxiety

KC Aberg, I Toren, R Paz - Journal of Neuroscience, 2023 - Soc Neuroscience
Threat-related information attracts attention and disrupts ongoing behavior, and particularly
so for more anxious individuals. Yet, it is unknown how and to what extent threat-related …

[HTML][HTML] Self-regulation of stress-related large-scale brain network balance using real-time fMRI neurofeedback

F Krause, N Kogias, M Krentz, M Lührs, R Goebel… - Neuroimage, 2021 - Elsevier
It has recently been shown that acute stress affects the allocation of neural resources
between large-scale brain networks, and the balance between the executive control network …

The neural basis of improved cognitive performance by threat of shock

S Torrisi, O Robinson, K O'Connell… - Social Cognitive and …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Anxiety can have both detrimental and facilitatory cognitive effects. This study investigates
the neural substrates of a replicated facilitatory effect of anxiety on sustained attention and …