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Social anxiety disorder (SAD) is one of the most prevalent psychiatric diseases typically emerging during childhood and adolescence. Biological vulnerabilities such as a protracted maturation of prefrontal cortex functioning together with heightened reactivity of the limbic system leading to increased emotional reactivity are discussed as factors contributing to the emergence and maintenance of SAD. Sleep […]

The individual tendency to interpret ambiguous situations negatively is associated with mental disorders.Interpretation biases are already evident during adolescence and due to the greater plasticity of the devel-oping brain it may be easier to change biases during this time. We investigated in healthy adolescentsand adults whether stabilizing memories of positive or negative scenes modulates the