Human fear conditioning research since Watson's case study on “Little Albert” has vastly
evolved and its impact today is reaching far beyond phobic anxiety. This review focuses on …

It is a defining feature of anxiety disorders that fear is elicited by a circumscribed class of
stimuli rather than by only one specific exemplar of that class. Therefore, fear generalization …

Forty percent of all general-practitioner appointments are related to mental illness, although
less than 35% of individuals have access to therapy and psychological care, indicating a …

Several labels, such as neuroticism, negative emotionality, and dispositional negativity,
indicate a broad dimension of psychopathology. However, largely separate, often disorder …

Every day we are bombarded by stimuli that must be assessed for their potential for harm or
benefit. Once a stimulus is learned to predict harm, it can elicit fear responses. Such learning …

Objective To compare structure, functional connectivity (FC) and task-based neural
differences in subjects with generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) compared to healthy …

A host of learning, memory, and decision-making processes form the individual's response
to threat and may be disrupted in anxiety and post-trauma psychopathology. Here we review …

Dispositional negativity—the propensity to experience and express more frequent, intense,
or enduring negative affect—is a fundamental dimension of childhood temperament and …

Soundscape studies aim to consider the holistic human perception of a sound environment,
including both the physical phenomena and how these are mediated by internal factors. This …

Overgeneralization (ie, the transfer of fear to stimuli not related to an aversive event) is part
of alterations in associative fear learning in mental disorders. In the present experimental …