This builds on our previous finding that socially anxious people recruit a different, perhaps less effective prefrontal circuit for daily-life emotion control (📄 doi.org/10.1038/s414...).
Here we show that circuit can be strengthened.
Next step: can this approach enhance exposure therapy outcomes?
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Why anxious individuals fail to control emotional behaviour is not well understood. Here, the authors show that highly anxious individuals have a more excitable lateral frontopolar cortex, and fail to...
