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SUBMITTER: Bruhl AB
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6869416 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Brühl Annette Beatrix AB Hänggi Jürgen J Baur Volker V Rufer Michael M Delsignore Aba A Weidt Steffi S Jäncke Lutz L Herwig Uwe U
Human brain mapping 20130913 7
Social anxiety disorder (SAD) is the second leading anxiety disorder. On the functional neurobiological level, specific brain regions involved in the processing of anxiety-laden stimuli and in emotion regulation have been shown to be hyperactive and hyper-responsive in SAD such as amygdala, insula and orbito- and prefrontal cortex. On the level of brain structure, prior studies on anatomical differences in SAD resulted in mixed and partially contradictory findings. Based on previous functional a ...[more]