Participants included 16 (nine females) right-handed patients with SAD who met criteria
of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (4th ed.; DSM-IV) based on the
Anxiety Disorders Interview Schedule—IV (ADIS-IV; DiNardo, Brown, & Barlow, 1994) for
current primary generalized SAD. Participants had an average age of 35.2 (SD = 11.9) and
16.3 (SD = 3.5) years of education and included eightwo Latino Americans, and one Native American. Comorbid current diagnoses included
three patients with generalized anxiety disorder, three with specific phobia, and one with
panic disorder without agoraphobia. Comorbid past diagnoses included two with obsessivecompulsive
disorder, three with dysthymia, and four with past major depressive disorder. All
participants provided informed consent in accordance with Stanford University’s Human
Subjects Committee guidelines for ethical research. Post-MBSR, two patients chose not to
participate because of discomfort with MR scanning.t Anglo-Americans, five Asian Americans,