Citation

Shechner T, Britton JC, Pérez-Edgar KE, Bar-Haim Y, Ernst M, Fox NA, Leibenluft E, Pine DS. Depress. Anxiety 2011; 29(4): 282-294.

Affiliation

The National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, Maryland. shechnert@mail.nih.gov.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2011, John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1002/da.20914

PMID

22170764

Abstract

Research on attention provides a promising framework for studying anxiety pathophysiology and treatment. The study of attention biases appears particularly pertinent to developmental research, as attention affects learning and has down-stream effects on behavior. This review summarizes recent findings about attention orienting in anxiety, drawing on findings in recent developmental psychopathology and affective neuroscience research. These findings generate specific insights about both development and therapeutics. The review goes beyond a traditional focus on biased processing of threats and considers biased processing of rewards. Building on this work, we then turn to the treatment of pediatric anxiety, where manipulation of attention to threat and/or reward may serve a therapeutic role as a component of Attention Bias Modification Therapy. Depression and Anxiety 0:1-13, 2011.  © 2011 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

Language: en