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This study looked at 175 adults with generalized anxiety disorder (GAD). Clinician-rated problems with concentrating were linked to higher GAD, anxiety, and depression severity even after other GAD symptoms were taken into account. The data also showed that difficulty concentrating statistically explained part of the link between a person’s tendency…
This paper is a systematic review and meta-analysis of resting-state fMRI studies that compared people with diagnosed anxiety disorders to healthy controls. The authors searched 1,226 records and then ran a coordinate-based meta-analysis (ALE) only on seed-based rs-fMRI studies because other study types were too few. The meta-analysis found reduced…
