ArticleFrontiers in psychology2020
Childhood Adversity and Dimensional Variations in Adult Sustained Attention.
Article in Frontiers in psychology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.
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- Socioeconomic disparities and neuroplasticity: Moving toward adaptation, intersectionality, and inclusion.The American psychologist · 2021Review
- The TestMyBrain Digital Neuropsychology Toolkit: Development and Psychometric Characteristics.Journal of clinical and experimental neuropsychology · 2021Article
- Early Life Adversity and Polygenic Risk for High Fasting Insulin Are Associated With Childhood Impulsivity.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2021Article
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Abstract
BACKGROUND AND
objectiveSustained attention is a transdiagnostic phenotype linked with most forms of psychopathology. We sought to understand factors that influence the development of sustained attention, by looking at the relationship between childhood adversity and adult sustained attention. PARTICIPANTS SETTING AND
methodsParticipants were 5,973 TestMyBrain.org visitors from English-speaking countries who completed a continuous performance task (gradCPT) of sustained attention and a childhood adversity questionnaire. We analyzed gradCPT performance using a signal detection approach.
resultsDiscrimination ability (the main metric of performance on the gradCPT) was associated with total childhood adversity load, even when controlling for covariates related to age, gender, parental education, race, country of origin, and relative socioeconomic status (β = -0.079,
conclusionOur results demonstrate that attention differences related to childhood adversity exposure can (1) be measured using brief, performance-based measures of sustained attention, (2) persist into adulthood, and (3) be detected at the population level. These results, paired with the well-documented associations between sustained attention and psychopathology, indicate that sustained attention may be an important mechanism for understanding early influences on mental health.
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