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Jamiah Hyde1, Katherine M Ryan1, Allison M Waters2
1School of Applied Psychology, Griffith University, Mt. Gravatt, Australia.
Purpose Of Review:
The purpose of this paper is to provide a current review of the recent literature (2015-2018) on psychophysiological markers of fear and anxiety.
Recent Finding:
Relative to healthy controls, fear-based disorders are characterised by heightened physiological reactivity to circumscribe threat salient stimuli, whereas anxiety-related disorders are associated with a more blunted pattern of physiological reactivity. Fear and anxiety disorders are marked by abnormal patterns of physiological reactivity, characterised by hyper- and hypo-reactivity in response to stimuli varying in threat salience.
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