SOCIAL PHOBIA

This study tests whether adding a positive mental rehearsal after exposure therapy helps people with social anxiety feel better faster. Forty participants with high social anxiety will complete a one-session exposure exercise, then either standard or positive mental rehearsal. Re…

This study tests an online mental exercise for people with social anxiety. Participants learn about anxiety and then either imagine approaching a feared social situation or do a verbal reasoning task. The goal is to see if imagining positive outcomes increases motivation and help…

This study looks at how the brains of children with anxiety disorders work differently from healthy children. Researchers will use brain scans and thinking tasks to track changes over a year, before and after standard treatments like therapy or medication. The goal is to find pat…

This study tests an experimental drug to see if it can fix brain patterns linked to avoiding rewards in people with major depression or anxiety. About 112 unmedicated adults will have brain scans and do decision-making tasks. The goal is to understand how the drug works, not to c…