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ArticlePsychophysiology2020

P3 amplitude reductions are associated with shared variance between internalizing and externalizing psychopathology.

Edward M Bernat, Jessica S Ellis, Matthew D Bachman, Brian M Hicks

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Edward M BernatDepartment of Psychology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA.
Jessica S EllisDepartment of Psychology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-1301-7592
Matthew D BachmanCenter for Cognitive Neuroscience, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA.
Brian M HicksDepartment of Psychiatry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.

Funding

Neurobiological Mechanisms of Impulse Control ProblemsK08MH080239 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA · PI BERNAT, EDWARD M. · 2008 to 2012
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NIH HHS K08MH080239NIMH NIH HHS K08 MH080239
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

P3 amplitude reductions, commonly elicited in oddball paradigms, have been associated with both internalizing (e.g., depression and anxiety) and externalizing problems (e.g., substance use, aggression, and impulsivity). Recent factor analytic models have focused on the shared variance between internalizing and externalizing problems as a potentially important separable psychopathology construct (a general psychopathology factor, or p-factor). To assess neurophysiological markers of this shared variance, we examined P3 amplitude to target and novel stimuli in an undergraduate sample with a range of internalizing and externalizing problems. Participants (N = 125) completed a rotated heads visual oddball paradigm, with IAPS pictures serving as infrequent novel stimuli. Results replicated P3 amplitude reduction relative to both target and novel stimuli separately for internalizing and externalizing problems, and found that the shared variance across internalizing and externalizing was significantly related to lower P3 amplitude to novels, targets, and a factor score of target and novel P3 measures. The present results are consistent with the interpretation that a general or shared problem behavior factor accounts for much of the associations between reduced P3 amplitude and internalizing and externalizing problems.

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AdolescentAdultAttentionBehavioral SymptomsCerebral CortexElectroencephalographyEvent-Related Potentials, P300FemaleHumansMalePersonalityVisual PerceptionYoung AdultERPsexternalizinginternalizingoddball taskP300p-factor

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PMID32478887
PMCPMC8916036

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