School of Psychology, University of Southampton, UK; Division of Clinical Neuroscience, School of Medicine, University of Southampton, UK.
Psychiatry Res. 2011 Mar 30;186(1):150-2. doi: 10.1016/j.psychres.2010.07.055. Epub 2010 Sep 15.
Potentiation of fear-related defense behaviours coordinated by the amygdala in response to environmental threat characterizes several anxiety disorders. We compared eye-blink startle responses to startle probes delivered during the presentation of emotional and neutral social cues in high and low generalized social anxiety. Socially anxious individuals exhibited larger startle responses to emotional (positive and negative) relative to neutral social cues, compared to non-anxious individuals.
杏仁核对与环境威胁相关的防御行为的增强作用，是几种焦虑障碍的特征。我们比较了在呈现情绪和中性社会线索时，高和低广泛性社交焦虑者对惊跳探测的眨眼惊跳反应。与非焦虑者相比，社交焦虑者对情绪（正性和负性）社会线索的惊跳反应大于中性社会线索。
