Anxiety
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- Offir Laufer, David Israeli, Rony Paz, "Behavioral and Neural Mechanisms of Overgeneralization in Anxiety", Current Biology, March 3, 2016
- In anxiety, learning modifies stimulus representation in primary cortex and amygdala
- Altered representation leads to later reduced discrimination even in a safe context
- These changes in perceptual thresholds contribute to overgeneralization in patients
- A wide affective network mediates both positive and negative stimuli during learning
- Lisa Rapaport, "People with anxiety may be hard-wired to see world differently", Yahoo News, March 8, 2016
- Popular media article reporting on the above research.
- Nigel Barber Ph.D., "Why modern women behave more like men", Psychology Today, 24 Ag 2009
- Anxiety (stress) leads to testosterone production in women, which leads to more masculine behaviors and body shapes.