ArticleBiological psychiatry2021
Attention Alterations in Pediatric Anxiety: Evidence From Behavior and Neuroimaging.
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- Particulate Matter Exposure and Default Mode Network Equilibrium During Early Adolescence.Brain connectivity · 2024Article
- Higher Intersubject Variability in Neural Response to Narrative Social Stimuli Among Youth With Higher Social Anxiety.Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry · 2024Article
- Normalization of Fronto-Parietal Activation by Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy in Unmedicated Pediatric Patients With Anxiety Disorders.The American journal of psychiatry · 2024Article
- Baby Brains at Work: How Task-Based Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Can Illuminate the Early Emergence of Psychiatric Risk.Biological psychiatry · 2023Review
- Network-specific selectivity of functional connections in the neonatal brain.Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) · 2023Article
- Translating Big Data to Clinical Outcomes in Anxiety: Potential for Multimodal Integration.Current psychiatry reports · 2022Review
- Cortical and subcortical brain structure in generalized anxiety disorder: findings from 28 research sites in the ENIGMA-Anxiety Working Group.Translational psychiatry · 2021Article
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Abstract
backgroundPediatric anxiety disorders involve greater capture of attention by threatening stimuli. However, it is not known if disturbances extend to nonthreatening stimuli, as part of a pervasive disturbance in attention-related brain systems. We hypothesized that pediatric anxiety involves greater capture of attention by salient, nonemotional stimuli, coupled with greater activity in the portion of the inferior frontal gyrus (IFG) specific to the ventral attention network (VAN).
methodsA sample of children (n = 129, 75 girls, mean 10.6 years of age), approximately half of whom met criteria for a current anxiety disorder, completed a task measuring involuntary capture of attention by nonemotional (square boxes) and emotional (angry and neutral faces) stimuli. A subset (n = 61) completed a task variant during functional magnetic resonance imaging. A priori analyses examined activity in functional brain areas within the right IFG, supplemented by a whole-brain, exploratory analysis.
resultsHigher clinician-rated anxiety was associated with greater capture of attention by nonemotional, salient stimuli (F
conclusionsThe pathophysiology of pediatric anxiety appears to involve greater capture of attention to salient stimuli, as well as greater activity in attention-related brain networks. These results provide novel behavioral and brain-based targets for treatment of pediatric anxiety disorders.
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