ReviewDevelopmental cognitive neuroscience2017
A biomarker of anxiety in children and adolescents: A review focusing on the error-related negativity (ERN) and anxiety across development.
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75 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- 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
- Alcohol and Neural Dynamics: A Meta-analysis of Acute Alcohol Effects on Event-Related Brain Potentials.Biological psychiatry · 2021Pooled it
- Overlaps and distinctions between attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder and autism spectrum disorder in young adulthood: Systematic review and guiding framework for EEG-imaging research.Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews · 2019Pooled it
- Neural Responsivity to Unexpected Stimuli Moderates a Developmental Pathway to Anxiety: A Community-Sample Replication in Early Infancy and Childhood.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2026Article
- Characterizing Attention and Cognitive Control Profiles of Children With ADHD and Anxiety.Journal of attention disorders · 2026Article
- Exploring Longitudinal Associations Among Error-Related Negativity, Perception of Interpersonal Events, and Internalizing Symptoms in Female Adolescents.Research on child and adolescent psychopathology · 2026Article
- Childhood behavioral inhibition and overcontrol: Risk for psychiatric and peer outcomes.Developmental psychology · 2026Article
- The Impact of Error-Related Brain Activity and Parental Attachment on Youth Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms.Psychophysiology · 2026Article
- State and trait late positive potential predict maternal mental health.Emotion (Washington, D.C.) · 2026Article
- Single-Trial Relationships Between the Error-Related Negativity, Pe, Error-Related Pupillary Dilation Response, and Post-Error Behavior.Psychophysiology · 2026Article
- The Impact of Test Anxiety and Cognitive Stress on Error-Related Brain Activity.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Integrating Multimodal Neuroimaging of Error Monitoring to Estimate Future Anxiety in Adolescents.JAMA network open · 2025Article
- Exploring the role of post-error processing in social anxiety across age.Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines · 2025Article
- Error monitoring and response inhibition in adolescents with bipolar disorders: An ERP study.Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2025Article
- Variation in coupling across neural and cardiac systems of regulation is linked to markers of anxiety risk in preschool.Development and psychopathology · 2025Article
- Opposing Relations of Reward Positivity with Anhedonia and Threat Sensitivity: Implications for Differential Dimensional Diagnosis.Clinical psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science · 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
- Enhanced Performance Monitoring as a Transdiagnostic Risk Marker of the Anxiety and Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum: The Role of Disorder Category, Clinical Status, Family Risk, and Anxiety Dimensions.Depression and anxiety · 2025Article
- The Balance N1 Is Larger in Children With Anxiety and Associated With the Error-Related Negativity.Biological psychiatry global open science · 2025Article
- Central and peripheral physiological responses to decision making in hoarding disorder.International journal of psychophysiology : official journal of the International Organization of Psychophysiology · 2024Article
15 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
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- Erratum issuedErratum.2020
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Abstract
backgroundAnxiety disorders are the most common form of psychopathology and often begin early in development. Therefore, there is interest in identifying neural biomarkers that characterize pathways leading to anxiety disorders early in the course of development. A substantial amount of work focuses on the error-related negativity (ERN) as a biomarker of anxiety. While two previous reviews have focused on the relationship of the ERN and anxiety in adults, no previous review has focused on this issue in children and adolescents. RESULTS AND
conclusionsOverall, 22 studies were included in the current review. A number of patterns emerged, including: 1.) The ERN is enhanced in clinically anxious children at all ages (6-18 years old), regardless of the task used to measure the ERN. 2.) Studies focusing on anxiety symptoms and temperamental fear suggest that the relationship between the ERN and normative anxiety may change across development. 3.) The ERN can predict the onset of anxiety disorders across different developmental periods. 4.) The ERN relates to other markers of risk for anxiety (e.g., aversive startle potentiation) in children and adolescents.
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