Decision-Making in Anxiety Disorder: Neural Approach-Avoidance Mechanisms
Neuroscience, Supervised by Prof. A. Ramakrishnan, 2023
- Measured maladaptive avoidance behaviour and its impact on decision-making in situations with competing rewards and threats.
- Conducted an anxiety disorder study on 30 participants using a 2D paradigm built on PsychoPy and skin conductance.
- Analysed behaviour in anxiety, attentional biases, and amygdala hyper-responsivity and decision-making in mental illness.
- Summarized anxiety’s impact on avoidance behaviour in reward-threat conflicts, and neural mechanisms in anxiety disorders.