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Social Anxiety Increases Autonomic and Visuocortical Generalization of Conditioned Aversive Responses to Faces

2025-07-18

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Aversive generalization learning is an adaptive trait that is necessary for survival in a dynamic environment. However, this process is exaggerated in persons with anxiety disorders, leading to overgeneralization of learned threat associations, hyperreactive fight-or-flight responses, and persistent avoidance. Patients with social anxiety disorder (SAD) exhibit impaired conditioned threat discrimination particular...

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DOI: 10.1101/2025.07.14.663966

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