ArticleJournal of abnormal child psychology2013
Increased error-related brain activity in six-year-old children with clinical anxiety.
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- Age-related differences in the error-related negativity and error positivity in children and adolescents are moderated by sample and methodological characteristics: A meta-analysis.Psychophysiology · 2022Pooled it
- Neural responses to error in youth: the impact of social context, anxiety, and worry.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2026Article
- The Impact of Test Anxiety and Cognitive Stress on Error-Related Brain Activity.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Data-Driven Identification of Brain-Behavioral and Sociodemographic Predictors of Anxiety Severity in Children Using Machine Learning.JAACAP open · 2025Article
- Maternal Social Phobia, but not Generalized Anxiety, Symptoms Interact with Early Childhood Error-Related Negativity to Prospectively Predict Child Anxiety Symptoms.Research on child and adolescent psychopathology · 2025Article
- Emotion Regulation Moderates the Prospective Association between ERN and Anxiety in Early Adolescence: An Age-Specific Moderation of Cognitive Reappraisal but not Expressive Suppression.Research on child and adolescent psychopathology · 2025Article
- Anxiety Symptoms in Young Children Are Associated With a Maladaptive Neurobehavioral Profile of Error Responding.Biological psychiatry. Cognitive neuroscience and neuroimaging · 2024Article
- Multiple Adaptive Attention-Bias-Modification Programs to Alter Normative Increase in the Error-Related Negativity in Adolescents.Clinical psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science · 2024Article
- Brain response to errors in children who stutter.Journal of fluency disorders · 2024Article
- The thriving kids and parents schools project: protocol of an incomplete stepped wedged cluster randomised trial evaluating the effectiveness of a Triple P seminar series.BMC public health · 2023Article
- The balance N1 and the ERN correlate in amplitude across individuals in small samples of younger and older adults.Experimental brain research · 2023Article
- Intergenerational transmission of cognitive control capacity among children at risk for depression.Biological psychology · 2023Article
- Associations between error-related negativity and childhood anxiety risk differ based on socioeconomic status.Developmental psychology · 2023Article
- Neural indices of performance monitoring are associated with daily emotional functioning in youth with anxiety disorders: An ERP and EMA study.International journal of psychophysiology : official journal of the International Organization of Psychophysiology · 2022Article
- What Event-Related Potential Tells Us about Brain Function: Child-Adolescent Psychiatric Perspectives.Soa--ch'ongsonyon chongsin uihak = Journal of child & adolescent psychiatry · 2021Review
- The moderating role of externalizing problems on the association between anxiety and the error-related negativity in youth.Developmental psychobiology · 2021Article
- Cognitive Control in Pediatric Obsessive-Compulsive and Anxiety Disorders: Brain-Behavioral Targets for Early Intervention.Biological psychiatry · 2021Review
- The error-related negativity as a neuromarker of risk or resilience in young children.Brain and behavior · 2021Article
- The association between parenting and the error-related negativity across childhood and adolescence.Developmental cognitive neuroscience · 2020Article
- A Diagnostic Biomarker for Pediatric Generalized Anxiety Disorder Using the Error-Related Negativity.Child psychiatry and human development · 2020Article
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Abstract
Anxiety disorders are the most frequently diagnosed form of psychopathology in children and often result in chronic impairment that persists into adulthood. Identifying neurobehavioral correlates of anxiety that appear relatively early in life would inform etiological models of development and allow intervention and prevention strategies to be implemented more effectively. The error-related negativity (ERN), a negative deflection in the event-related potential at fronto-central sites approximately 50 ms following the commission of errors, has been consistently found to be larger among anxious adults. The current study sought to extend these findings to even younger individuals: the ERN was elicited by a Go/NoGo task in 48 six year-old children with a clinical anxiety disorder assessed by diagnostic interview and 48 age-matched controls. In addition to child anxiety disorder, the ERN was examined in relation to maternal history of anxiety disorder, which was previously related to a smaller ERN. Anxious children were characterized by a larger (i.e., more negative) ERN and maternal history of anxiety disorder was associated with a smaller ERN. Thus, the relationship between an increased ERN and clinical anxiety is evident by age 6, and this effect appears independent from an opposing influence of maternal anxiety history on the ERN. These findings support the ERN as a promising neurobehavioral marker of anxiety, and implications are discussed.
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