2020, Number 1
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Rev Clin Esc Med 2020; 10 (1)
Red de orientación atencional, enganche y desenganche en el Trastorno de Ansiedad Social
Radulovich MM, González SM, Monge OJM
Language: Spanish
References: 12
Page: 5-14
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ABSTRACT
Social anxiety is one of the most common anxiety
disorders. Its essence lies in a fear disproportionate
to public scrutiny, for fear that it leads to humiliation
or shame. Because of the social nature of social
anxiety, there is a constant exposure of the person to
his phobia, however, this does not lead to improvement
of symptoms. This particular characteristic of
social anxiety disorder guided the studies towards
attentional processes in terms of information processing,
in order to elucidate that throughout the
continuous exposure there is no attenuation of the
symptomatology. Studies have repeatedly shown that
when attention networks are altered, they propitiate
and maintain high levels of social anxiety, due to the
way in which information is processed. The following
systematic review aims to clarify the particularities
of attentional involvement in social anxiety. This was
done with studies of the last three years that focus
on the coupling and disengagement processes specifically
within the attention guidance network. Most
of these conclude that attentional engagement is
the process that works in a problematic way in social
anxiety disorder. Other studies do not obtain
the same results, so the importance of considering
other variables when evaluating the attention-oriented
network is debated in order to elucidate whether
there are other factors that influence the alteration of
attention which in turn are responsible for that social
anxiety disorder persists.
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