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Does exposure to social-evaluative stress reveal restricted autonomic flexibility in children with social phobia compared to healthy controls?
Does exposure to social-evaluative stress reveal restricted autonomic flexibility in children with social phobia compared to healthy controls?
Children with social phobia exhibit elevated baseline arousal and restricted autonomic flexibility, which may explain their psychophysiological responses to social-evaluative stress.
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Autonomic inflexibility may mark pediatric social phobia under stress; leaves open causal role and clinical utility pending prospective studies.
Schmitz et al. (2011) studied this question.
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