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Neurobiology of Social Phobia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 November 2014

Joseph M. Bebchuk  and
Manuel E. Tancer
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Abstract

Social phobia is an anxiety disorder that is characterized by excessive fear and/or avoidance of situations in which an individual believes that he or she may be the subject of evaluation or scrutiny while interacting with other people or performing a specific task. This article reviews the available literature on the neurobiology underlying social phobia, including autonomic nervous system effects, neuroimaging findings, pharmacologic challenge studies, and neuroendocrine responsivity and function. Overall, such studies have found few consistently demonstrable differences in neurobiology between patients with social phobia and healthy controls, but further investigations are needed.

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CNS Spectrums , Volume 4 , Issue 11: Social Phobia , November 1999 , pp. 42 - 48
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1999

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