Responding to Threat: Associations Between Neural Reactivity to and Avoidance of Threat in Pediatric Anxiety

Previous research implicates elevated threat responsivity, including neural reactivity to and avoidance of threat, in the maintenance of anxiety disorders. However, these two potential mechanisms have previously been considered separately. Using multiple levels of analysis to improve our understanding of threat responsivity could maximize the clinical utility of empirical findings. The present study uses a multimodal approach to investigate the association between neural reactivity to and avoidance of threat in pediatric anxiety.