McTeague LM, et al. - The clinicians included a sample of individuals with the principal panic disorder with agoraphobia, without a comorbid social anxiety disorder, to evaluate the specificity to principal social anxiety. Social anxiety appeared to confer a sustained bias for one or the other, rather than shifts between covert vigilance and avoidance of aversive facial expressions. For the majority of patients, while vigilant attention reliably increased with social anxiety severity, the most impaired show an opposing avoidance. To modify attention bias and related impairment, these distinct patterns of attentional allocation could provide a powerful means of personalizing neuroscience-based interventions.