Post-traumatic stress influences the brain even in the absence of symptoms: a systematic, quantitative meta-analysis of neuroimaging studies

EA Stark, CE Parsons, TJ Van Hartevelt… - Neuroscience & …, 2015 - Elsevier
Stress affects brain function, and may lead to post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
Considerable empirical data for the neurobiology of PTSD has been derived from …

Modulations of the experience of self and time

M Wittmann - Consciousness and Cognition, 2015 - Elsevier
Empirical findings in the Cognitive Sciences on the relationship between feeling states and
subjective time have led to the assumption that time perception entails emotional and …

Increased anterior insula activity in anxious individuals is linked to diminished perceived control

RP Alvarez, N Kirlic, M Misaki, J Bodurka… - Translational …, 2015 - nature.com
Individuals with high-trait anxiety frequently report decreased perceived control. However, it
is unclear how these processes are instantiated at a neural level. Prior research suggests …

Startle potentiation to uncertain threat as a psychophysiological indicator of fear-based psychopathology: An examination across multiple internalizing disorders.

SM Gorka, L Lieberman, SA Shankman… - Journal of abnormal …, 2017 - psycnet.apa.org
Heightened reactivity to uncertain threat (U-threat) is an important individual difference factor
that may characterize fear-based internalizing psychopathologies (IPs) and distinguish them …

Evidence-based answers to questions about trigger warnings for clinically-based distress: A review for teachers.

GA Boysen - Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Psychology, 2017 - psycnet.apa.org
According to the popular press, students have been increasingly demanding warnings
before being exposed to potentially distressing classroom material. The validity of these …

The cerebellum under stress

J Moreno-Rius - Frontiers in neuroendocrinology, 2019 - Elsevier
Stress-related psychiatric conditions are one of the main causes of disability in developed
countries. They account for a large portion of resource investment in stress-related …

Dissociation between amygdala and bed nucleus of the stria terminalis during threat anticipation in female post‐traumatic stress disorder patients

L Brinkmann, C Buff, P Neumeister… - Human brain …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Feelings of uncontrollability and anxiety regarding possibly harmful events are key features
of post‐traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptomatology. Due to a lack of studies, the …

Anterior insula responds to temporally unpredictable aversiveness: an fMRI study

SA Shankman, SM Gorka, BD Nelson, DA Fitzgerald… - …, 2014 - journals.lww.com
A heightened sensitivity to unpredictable aversiveness is a key component of several
anxiety disorders. Neuroimaging studies of unpredictable aversiveness have shown that the …

A way forward for anxiolytic drug development: Testing candidate anxiolytics with anxiety-potentiated startle in healthy humans

C Grillon, M Ernst - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2020 - Elsevier
This review introduces a research strategy that may radically transform the pursuit of new
anxiolytics, via the use of human models of anxiety in healthy individuals. Despite enormous …

Learning models of PTSD

S Lissek, C Grillon - The Oxford handbook of traumatic stress …, 2012 - books.google.com
Of all anxiety disorders, PTSD may be most clearly attributable to discrete, aversive learning
events capable of evoking both conditioned fear responding to stimuli associated with the …