Journal article
Amygdala and ventrolateral prefrontal cortex function during anticipated peer evaluation in pediatric social anxiety.
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CONTEXT: Amygdala and ventrolateral prefrontal cortex (vlPFC) dysfunction manifests in adolescents with anxiety disorders when they view negatively valenced stimuli in threatening contexts. Such fear-circuitry dysfunction may also manifest when anticipated social evaluation leads socially anxious adolescents to misperceive peers as threatening. OBJECTIVE: To determine whether photographs of negatively evaluated smiling peers viewed during anticipated social evaluation engage the amygdala and ...
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- Publication status:
- Published
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- Journal:
- Archives of general psychiatry
- Volume:
- 65
- Issue:
- 11
- Pages:
- 1303-1312
- Publication date:
- 2008-11-01
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1538-3636
- ISSN:
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0003-990X
- Source identifiers:
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14983
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- English
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- Pubs id:
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pubs:14983
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- pubs:14983
- Deposit date:
- 2012-12-19
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- 2008
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