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The present study investigated the blood oxygen level dependent (BOLD) response to processing positive and negative facial emotions in patients with GAD.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec id=\"S0033291710001455_sec_a002\"><jats:title>Method<\/jats:title><jats:p>A total of 15 female GAD patients and 16 female controls undertook an implicit face emotion task during fMRI scanning. They also performed a face emotion recognition task outside the scanner.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec id=\"S0033291710001455_sec_a003\" sec-type=\"results\"><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>The only behavioural difference observed in GAD patients was less accurate detection of sad facial expressions compared with control participants. However, GAD patients showed an attenuated BOLD signal in the prefrontal cortex to fearful, sad, angry and happy facial expressions and an attenuated signal in the anterior cingulate cortex to happy and fearful facial expressions. No differences were found in amygdala response.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec id=\"S0033291710001455_sec_a004\" sec-type=\"conclusion\"><jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title><jats:p>In contrast with previous research, this study found BOLD signal attenuation in the ventrolateral and medial prefrontal cortex and the anterior cingulate cortex during face emotion processing, consistent with a hypothesis of hypo-responsivity to external emotional stimuli in GAD. 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