ArticleChild psychiatry and human development2020
A Diagnostic Biomarker for Pediatric Generalized Anxiety Disorder Using the Error-Related Negativity.
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- Exploring the role of post-error processing in social anxiety across age.Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines · 2025Article
- The Balance N1 Is Larger in Children With Anxiety and Associated With the Error-Related Negativity.Biological psychiatry global open science · 2025Article
- Cognitive Control Moderates Associations Between Domains of Temperamental Reactivity and Preschoolers' Social Behaviors.Developmental psychobiology · 2024Article
- Brain response to errors in children who stutter.Journal of fluency disorders · 2024Article
- Altered Error Monitoring and Decreased Flanker Task Accuracy in Pediatric Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder.Research square · 2024Article
- Associations between error-related negativity and childhood anxiety risk differ based on socioeconomic status.Developmental psychology · 2023Article
- Neural indices of performance monitoring are associated with daily emotional functioning in youth with anxiety disorders: An ERP and EMA study.International journal of psychophysiology : official journal of the International Organization of Psychophysiology · 2022Article
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Abstract
The error-related negativity (ERN) is a negative deflection in the event-related potential following a mistake that is a putative biomarker of anxiety. The study assessed the ERN as a diagnostic biomarker using receiver operating characteristic (ROC) analyses in 96 cases with anxiety disorders (AD) and 96 matched healthy controls (HC) ages 8 to 18 years. Forty-one cases had generalized anxiety disorder (GAD); 55 cases had other anxiety disorders (OAD) without GAD. ERN amplitude was significantly increased in AD cases compared to HC. The area under the curve (AUC) in the ROC analysis was 0.64, indicating the ERN is an inadequate diagnostic test for AD altogether. The ERN was significantly increased in cases with either GAD or OAD compared to HC. The AUC in ROC analyses with GAD and OAD was 0.75 and 0.56, respectively, suggesting the ERN provides an adequate diagnostic test for GAD but not for OAD.
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