Department of Psychiatry, Huashan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, People's Republic of China.
Neuropsychiatr Dis Treat. 2013;9:73-80. doi: 10.2147/NDT.S36822. Epub 2013 Jan 8.
Cognitive theorists relate anxiety disorders to the way in which emotional information is processed. The existing research suggests that patients with anxiety disorders tend to allocate their attention toward threat-related information selectively, and this may differ among different types of anxious subjects. The aim of this study was to explore attentional bias in patients with generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) and panic disorder (PD) using the emotional Stroop task and compare the differences between them.
Forty-two patients with GAD, 34 patients with PD, and 46 healthy controls performed the emotional Stroop task with four word types, ie, GAD-related words, PD-related words, neutral words, and positive words.
Patients with GAD and those with PD were slower than healthy controls to respond to all stimuli. Patients with GAD had longer response latencies in color-naming both PD-relevant words and GAD relevant words. Patients with PD had longer response latencies only in color-naming PD-related words, similar to healthy controls.
Patients with GAD and those with PD had a different pattern of attentional bias, and there was insufficient evidence to support the existence of specific attentional bias in patients with PD.
认知理论家将焦虑障碍与情绪信息处理方式联系起来。现有研究表明，焦虑障碍患者往往会选择性地将注意力分配到与威胁相关的信息上，而不同类型的焦虑患者之间可能存在差异。本研究旨在使用情绪 Stroop 任务探讨广泛性焦虑障碍（GAD）和惊恐障碍（PD）患者的注意偏向，并比较它们之间的差异。
42 名 GAD 患者、34 名 PD 患者和 46 名健康对照者分别完成了四种词类的情绪 Stroop 任务，即 GAD 相关词、PD 相关词、中性词和积极词。
GAD 患者和 PD 患者的反应速度均慢于健康对照组。GAD 患者在命名 PD 相关词和 GAD 相关词的颜色时反应时较长。PD 患者仅在命名 PD 相关词时反应时较长，与健康对照组相似。
GAD 患者和 PD 患者存在不同的注意偏向模式，尚无充分证据支持 PD 患者存在特定的注意偏向。
