Anxiety is experienced in response to threats that are distal or uncertain, involving changes
in one's subjective state, autonomic responses, and behavior. Defensive and physiologic …

Considerable work has advanced understanding of the nature, causes, management, and
prevention of anxiety disorders in children and adolescents over the past 30 years. Prior to …

Threat-anticipatory defensive responses have evolved to promote survival in a dynamic
world. While inherently adaptive, aberrant expression of defensive responses to potential …

When extreme, anxiety can become debilitating. Anxiety disorders, which often first emerge
early in development, are common and challenging to treat, yet the underlying mechanisms …

Across clinical and subclinical samples, anxiety has been associated with increased
attentional capture by cues signaling danger. Various cognitive models attribute the onset …

Cross-sectional evidence suggests that attention bias to threat is linked to anxiety disorders
and anxiety vulnerability in both children and adults. However, there is a lack of …

Worry is common in children and adolescents, yet some youth experience excessive worries
that persist over time and cause significant distress. Whilst the literature on worry and …

Social anxiety disorder (SAD) tends to emerge during the early teenage years and is
particularly refractory to change even when standard evidence-based CBT treatments are …