Task-dependent modulation of amygdala connectivity in social anxiety disorder

In this study, we measured 15 SAD patients and 15 healthy controls during an affective counting Stroop task with emotional faces to assess the interaction of affective stimuli with a cognitive task in SAD, as well as to investigate the causal interactions between the amygdala and the medial orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) using dynamic causal modeling (DCM).

Source: Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging - February 9, 2017 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Lora Minkova, Ronald Sladky, Georg S. Kranz, Michael Woletz, Nicole Geissberger, Christoph Kraus, Rupert Lanzenberger, Christian Windischberger Source Type: research