Journal article
Social fearfulness in the human brain
Abstract
Social fearfulness is expressed on a continuum of severity from moderate distress to incapacitating fear. The present article focuses on the brain states associated with this broad dimension of social anxiety in humans. In total, 70 published studies are summarized documenting the neural correlates of social anxiety during states of rest, threat-related cognitive-affective activation, and acute symptom provocation. Neural exaggeration in limbic …
Authors
Miskovic V; Schmidt LA
Journal
Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, Vol. 36, No. 1, pp. 459–478
Publisher
Elsevier
Publication Date
1 2012
DOI
10.1016/j.neubiorev.2011.08.002
ISSN
0149-7634