“…Thus, the hyperactivation pattern within this region in SAD may reflect rapid detection of potential threatening stimuli at a perceptual level. Our findings are in accordance with previous reports in SAD using other paradigms (Herrmann et al, 2008;Pujol et al, 2013) and with proposals of the involvement of visual cortex in emotional arousal (Sabatinelli, Lang, Keil, & Bradley, 2007;McTeague, Shumen, Wieser, Lang, & Keil, 2011) and fit the pattern of early hypervigilance to facial expressions observed in SAD .…”