Individualized prediction of dispositional worry using white matter connectivity.

Journal: Psychological medicine
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Abstract

BACKGROUND: Excessive worry is a defining feature of generalized anxiety disorder and is present in a wide range of other psychiatric conditions. Therefore, individualized predictions of worry propensity could be highly relevant in clinical practice, with respect to the assessment of worry symptom severity at the individual level.

Authors

  • Chunliang Feng
    College of Information Science and Technology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China; State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China; Key Laboratory of Affective and Social Cognitive Science, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China.
  • Zaixu Cui
    State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning & IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, 100875, China.
  • Dazhi Cheng
    Department of Pediatric Neurology, Capital Institute of Pediatrics, Beijing 100020, China.
  • Rui Xu
    Collaborative Innovation Center for Green Chemical Manufacturing and Accurate Detection, Key Laboratory of Interfacial Reaction & Sensing Analysis in Universities of Shandong, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, University of Jinan, Jinan, 250022, PR China.
  • Ruolei Gu
    Key Laboratory of Behavioral Science, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing, China.