Climate change on the brain: Neural correlates of climate anxiety

JM Carlson, J Foley, L Fang - Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 2024 - Elsevier
Climate change is a global crisis impacting individuals' mental health. Climate anxiety is an
emerging area of interest within popular culture and the scientific community. Yet, little is …

Neural activation changes following attention bias modification treatment or a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor for social anxiety disorder

O Azriel, G Arad, N Tik, M Weiser, M Bloch… - Psychological …, 2024 - cambridge.org
BackgroundDelineation of changes in neural function associated with novel and established
treatments for social anxiety disorder (SAD) can advance treatment development. We …

[HTML][HTML] The questionable validity of attention bias variability: Evidence from two conceptually unrelated cognitive tasks

JM Carlson, L Fang, D Kassel - Journal of affective disorders reports, 2022 - Elsevier
Background Attention bias variability is thought to measure fluctuations in attention towards
and away from threat-related information and is elevated in affective disorders. However …

Eye-size effects in the dot-probe task: Greater sclera exposure predicts delayed disengagement from fearful faces

JS Aday, L Fang, JM Carlson - Plos one, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Fearful facial expressions are nonverbal and biologically salient signals of potential threat
that automatically hold, capture, and direct observers' attention. They are characterized by …

Structural brain changes in the anterior cingulate cortex of major depressive disorder individuals with suicidal ideation: Evidence from the REST-meta-MDD project

Z Yi, L **a, J Yi, Y Jia, L Wei, S Shen, N Wu… - Psychological …, 2025 - cambridge.org
BackgroundSuicidal ideation (SI) is very common in patients with major depressive disorder
(MDD). However, its neural mechanisms remain unclear. The anterior cingulate cortex …

Biases in affective attention tasks in posttraumatic stress disorder patients: A systematic review of neuroimaging studies

LTL Guerra, JM Rocha, FL Osório, JC Bouso… - Biological …, 2023 - Elsevier
Introduction Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is characterized by alterations in
emotional and cognitive processing. The current neurobiological model of PTSD posits that …

Enriched rehabilitation on brain functional connectivity in patients with post-stroke cognitive impairment

Y Huai, W Yang, Y Lv, K Wang, H Zhou, Y Lu… - Frontiers in …, 2025 - frontiersin.org
Objective This study aims to observe the effect of enrichment rehabilitation (ER) on cognitive
function in post-stroke patients and to clarify its underlying mechanism. Methods Forty …

The role of attentional bias toward negative emotional information and social anxiety in problematic social media use

J Zhao, Z Zhou, Z Lin, B Sun, X Wu… - Journal of Psychosocial …, 2023 - journals.healio.com
The current study aimed to analyze whether individuals with problematic social media use
(PSMU) demonstrate attentional bias (AB) toward negative emotional information and …

The gray matter morphology associated with the electrophysiological response to errors in individuals with high trait anxiety

L Fang, JA Andrzejewski, JM Carlson - International Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Enhanced error monitoring has been associated with higher levels of anxiety. This has been
consistently demonstrated in its most reliable electrophysiological index, the error-related …