Why anxious individuals fail to control emotional behaviour is not well understood. Here, the authors show that highly anxious individuals have a more excitable lateral frontopolar cortex, and fail to recruit this region during emotional action control.
I am confused by many of the comments in the linked discussion. They essentially argue for exposure therapy, when the first sentence of that article says that the redirection of the emotional regulation is what prevents exposure therapy from working.
I am confused by many of the comments in the linked discussion. They essentially argue for exposure therapy, when the first sentence of that article says that the redirection of the emotional regulation is what prevents exposure therapy from working.