La ansiedad por rasgos está asociada con una reducción de la repetición relacionada con la recompensa en reposo

Qianqian Yu1,2,3,4, Yue-Jia Luo1,3,5, Ray Dolan1,6,7

  • 1State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning, IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China.

Nature communications
|August 26, 2025
PubMed
Resumen

Este estudio revela que la repetición hacia atrás durante el descanso, crucial para el aprendizaje de asociaciones de recompensa, se ve afectada en individuos con ansiedad de alto rasgo. Este mecanismo de repetición neuronal está relacionado negativamente con los niveles de ansiedad e influye en el comportamiento de búsqueda de recompensas.

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