ArticleJournal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines2018
A longitudinal, within-person investigation of the association between the P3 ERP component and externalizing behavior problems in young children.
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- Blunted No-Go P3 predicts faster increases in disordered eating symptoms in early adolescents: A four-wave longitudinal study.Research square · 2026Article
- Altered temporal organization of neural response dynamics during attention processing differentiates ADHD subtypes in children.NeuroImage. Clinical · 2026Article
- Electrophysiological correlates of inhibitory control in children: Relations with prenatal maternal risk factors and child psychopathology.Development and psychopathology · 2025Article
- The P3 ERP in Relation to General Versus Specific Psychopathology in Early Childhood.Research on child and adolescent psychopathology · 2023Article
- Associations of parent-adolescent closeness with P3 amplitude, frontal theta, and binge drinking among offspring with high risk for alcohol use disorder.Alcohol, clinical & experimental research · 2023Article
- Longitudinal Analysis of Self-Reported Symptoms, Behavioral Measures, and Event-Related Potential Components of a Cued Go/NoGo Task in Adults With Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder and Controls.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2022Article
- Facial Expression Processing of Children Orphaned by Parental HIV/AIDS: A Cross-Sectional ERP Study with Rapid Serial Visual Presentation.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Trait Disinhibition and NoGo Event-Related Potentials in Violent Mentally Disordered Offenders and Healthy Controls.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2020Article
- In Quest of Pathognomonic/Endophenotypic Markers of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD): Potential of EEG-Based Frequency Analysis and ERPs to Better Detect, Prevent and Manage ADHD.Medical devices (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2020Review
- Towards robust biomarkers of psychosocial interventions.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2019Article
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Abstract
backgroundExternalizing problems, including aggression and conduct problems, are thought to involve impaired attentional capacities. Previous research suggests that the P3 event-related potential (ERP) component is an index of attentional processing, and diminished P3 amplitudes to infrequent stimuli have been shown to be associated with externalizing problems and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). However, the vast majority of this prior work has been cross-sectional and has not examined young children. The present study is the first investigation of whether within-individual changes in P3 amplitude predict changes in externalizing problems, providing a stronger test of developmental process.
methodParticipants included a community sample of children (N = 153) followed longitudinally at 30, 36, and 42 months of age. Children completed an oddball task while ERP data were recorded. Parents rated their children's aggression and ADHD symptoms.
resultsChildren's within-individual changes in the P3 amplitude predicted concomitant within-child changes in their aggression such that smaller P3 amplitudes (relative to a child's own mean) were associated with more aggression symptoms. However, changes in P3 amplitudes were not significantly associated with ADHD symptoms.
conclusionsFindings suggest that the P3 may play a role in development of aggression, but do not support the notion that the P3 plays a role in development of early ADHD symptoms.
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