The phobic brain: Morphometric features correctly classify individuals with small animal phobia

• Published in: Psychophysiology Vol. 62; no. 1; pp. e14716 - n/a
• Main Authors: Scarano, Alessandro, Fumero, Ascensión, Baggio, Teresa, Rivero, Francisco, Marrero, Rosario J., Olivares, Teresa, Peñate, Wenceslao, Álvarez‐Pérez, Yolanda, Bethencourt, Juan Manuel, Grecucci, Alessandro
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.01.2025; John Wiley and Sons Inc
• Subjects: Adult; affective neuroscience; Amygdala; animal phobia; Animals; anxiety; Anxiety disorders; Brain - diagnostic imaging; Brain - pathology; Cerebellum; Cortex (frontal); Fear & phobias; Female; Gray Matter - diagnostic imaging; Gray Matter - pathology; Humans; machine learning; Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Male; Nerve Net - diagnostic imaging; Original; Phobic Disorders - classification; Phobic Disorders - diagnostic imaging; Phobic Disorders - pathology; Phobic Disorders - physiopathology; Prediction models; Sensorimotor system; Sensory integration; Somatosensory cortex; Substantia grisea; Support Vector Machine; Temporal lobe; Young Adult; anxiety; affective neuroscience; animal phobia; support vector machine; machine learning

Specific phobia represents an anxiety disorder category characterized by intense fear generated by specific stimuli. Among specific phobias, small animal phobia (SAP) denotes a particular condition that has been poorly investigated in the neuroscientific literature. Moreover, the few previous studie...