ArticleJournal of abnormal child psychology2017
Anxiety and Depression Symptom Dimensions Demonstrate Unique Relationships with the Startle Reflex in Anticipation of Unpredictable Threat in 8 to 14 Year-Old Girls.
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- Neighborhood Disadvantage Associated With Blunted Amygdala Reactivity to Predictable and Unpredictable Threat in a Community Sample of Youth.Biological psychiatry global open science · 2022Article
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- Depressive Symptoms Prospectively Predict Peer Victimization: A Longitudinal Study Among Adolescent Females.Child psychiatry and human development · 2022Article
- Increased dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) is associated with anxiety in adolescent girls.Psychoneuroendocrinology · 2020Article
- The impact of startle reactivity to unpredictable threat on the relation between bullying victimization and internalizing psychopathology.Journal of psychiatric research · 2019Review
- Pediatric OCD in the era of RDoC.Journal of obsessive-compulsive and related disorders · 2019Article
- Startle during threat longitudinally predicts functional impairment independent of DSM diagnoses.Psychiatry research · 2019Article
- Rest, Reactivity, and Recovery: A Psychophysiological Assessment of Borderline Personality Disorder.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2018Article
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Abstract
There is growing evidence that heightened sensitivity to unpredictability is a core mechanism of anxiety disorders. In adults, multiple anxiety disorders have been associated with a heightened startle reflex in anticipation of unpredictable threat. Child and adolescent anxiety has been linked to an increased startle reflex across baseline, safety, and threat conditions. However, it is unclear whether anxiety in youth is related to the startle reflex as a function of threat predictability. In a sample of 90 8 to 14 year-old girls, the present study examined the association between anxiety symptom dimensions and startle potentiation during a no, predictable, and unpredictable threat task. Depression symptom dimensions were also examined given their high comorbidity with anxiety and mixed relationship with the startle reflex and sensitivity to unpredictability. To assess current symptoms, participants completed the self-report Screen for Child Anxiety Related Emotional Disorders and Children's Depression Inventory. Results indicated that social phobia symptoms were associated with heightened startle potentiation in anticipation of unpredictable threat and attenuated startle potentiation in anticipation of predictable threat. Negative mood and negative self-esteem symptoms were associated with attenuated and heightened startle potentiation in anticipation of unpredictable threat, respectively. All results remained significant after controlling for the other symptom dimensions. The present study provides initial evidence that anxiety and depression symptom dimensions demonstrate unique associations with the startle reflex in anticipation of unpredictable threat in children and adolescents.
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