Neural processing of emotional facial stimuli in specific phobia: An fMRI study.

Joscha Böhnlein Elisabeth Johanna LeehrKati RoesmannTeresa SappeltOle PlatteDominik GrotegerdLisa SindermannJonathan ReppleNils OpelSusanne MeinertHannah LemkeTiana BorgersKatharina DohmVerena EnnekingJanik GoltermannLena WaltemateCarina HülsmannKatharina ThielNils WinterJochen BauerUlrike LuekenThomas StraubeMarkus JunghöferUdo Dannlowski

Published in: Depression and anxiety (2021)

Patients suffering from SP are characterized by differences in the connectivity of the amygdala and areas typically linked to emotional processing in response to aversive facial stimuli (inferior parietal cortex, fusiform gyrus, middle cingulate, postcentral cortex, and insula). This might implicate a subtle difference in the processing of nonspecific emotional stimuli and warrants more research furthering our understanding of neurofunctional alteration in patients with SP.

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