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- Title
Increased amygdala activation to angry and contemptuous faces in generalized social phobia.
- Authors
Stein, Murray B; Goldin, Philippe R; Sareen, Jitender; Zorrilla, Lisa T Eyler; Brown, Gregory G
- Abstract
Generalized social phobia (GSP) is characterized by fear of social interactions and sensitivity to disapproval by others. Given the established role of the amygdala as part of a distributed neural system for the processing of emotional cues, we hypothesized that subjects with GSP would exhibit greater amygdala activation in response to harsh (angry, fearful, and contemptous) vs accepting (happy) facial emotional expressions compared with healthy control subjects (HCs).
- Publication
Archives of general psychiatry, 2002, Vol 59, Issue 11, p1027
- ISSN
0003-990X
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1001/archpsyc.59.11.1027