. The areas of the brain that are mostly associated with social anxiety include brain stem, prefrontal cortex, and amygdale, which play a key role in modulating fear and anxiety. Prefrontal cortex is responsible for pathological anxiety responses related to negative emotions caused by amygdala, while brain stem controls the rate of breathing and any fault may result in social anxiety. In these cases, the patient’s social anxiety possibly originated from the prefrontal cortex which concerns negative emotions. The patient has a significant impairment in social activities and has resigned from her sorority and is also unable to go to the library to study as she feels everyone is looking at her and mocking her, which are all negative social emotions.
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