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Recent advances in the brain imaging of social anxiety disorder
Author(s) -
Fouche JeanPaul,
Wee Nic J.A.,
Roelofs Karin,
Stein Dan J.
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
human psychopharmacology: clinical and experimental
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.461
H-Index - 78
eISSN - 1099-1077
pISSN - 0885-6222
DOI - 10.1002/hup.2281
Subject(s) - amygdala , social anxiety , anxiety , psychology , neuroscience , neuroanatomy , neuroimaging , behavioral neuroscience , cognitive psychology , psychiatry
Social anxiety disorder (SAD) is one of the most common and disabling anxiety disorders, yet much remains to be learned about its psychobiology. Although functional imaging has emphasized the role of the amygdala and other limbic structures in the neurobiology of SAD, structural and connectivity imaging techniques have emphasized the possibility of abnormalities in other regions and in whole‐brain networks. The involvement of a broad range of networks in SAD is consistent with current understandings of the neuroanatomy of emotion and of social processing. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.