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ReviewNeuroscience and biobehavioral reviews2021

Linking irritability and functional brain networks: A transdiagnostic case for expanding consideration of development and environment in RDoC.

Ashely N Nielsen, Lauren S Wakschlag, Elizabeth S Norton

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Review in Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

18 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Systematic Review and Meta-analysis: Task-based fMRI Studies in Youths With Irritability.Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry · 2023
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  4. Genetic and Environmental Influences on the Development of Irritability from Ages 3 to 5 Years.Journal of clinical child and adolescent psychology : the official journal for the Society of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, American Psychological Association, Division 53 · 2025
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  5. A network approach to the investigation of childhood irritability: probing frustration using social stimuli.Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines · 2024
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  8. Irritability in Youths: A Critical Integrative Review.The American journal of psychiatry · 2024
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  11. A First-Person Account of Developmental Language Disorder.American journal of speech-language pathology · 2023
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  18. Novel Assessment of the Impact of Irritability on Physiological and Psychological Frustration Responses in Adolescents.Journal of clinical child and adolescent psychology : the official journal for the Society of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, American Psychological Association, Division 53
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Ashely N NielsenDepartment of Medical Social Sciences, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, United States; Institute for Innovations in Developmental Sciences, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, United States. Electronic address: ashley.nielsen@northwestern.edu.
Lauren S WakschlagDepartment of Medical Social Sciences, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, United States; Institute for Innovations in Developmental Sciences, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, United States.
Elizabeth S NortonInstitute for Innovations in Developmental Sciences, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, United States; Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, United States.

Funding

Optimizing prediction of preschool psychopathology from brain: behavior markers of emotion dysregulation from birth: A computational, developmental cognitive neuroscience approachR01MH121877 · NIMH · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY AT CHICAGO · PI LUBY, JOAN L., ROGERS, CYNTHIA ELISE · 2020 to 2024
$8.2M
Generating an Earlier Science of When to Worry: A Neurodevelopmental, Transactional Approach to Characterizing Irritability Patterns Beginning in InfancyR01MH107652 · NIMH · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY AT CHICAGO · PI WAKSCHLAG, LAUREN S · 2016 to 2021
$4.0M
NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH107652NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH121877
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The National Institute of Mental Health Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) framework promotes the dimensional and transdiagnostic operationalization of psychopathology, but consideration of the neurodevelopmental foundations of mental health problems requires deeper examination. Irritability, the dispositional tendency to angry emotion that has both mood and behavioral elements, is dimensional, transdiagnostic, and observable early in life-a promising target for the identification of early neural indicators or risk factors for psychopathology. Here, we examine functional brain networks linked to irritability from preschool to adulthood and discuss how development and early experience may influence these neural substrates. Functional connectivity measured with fMRI varies according to irritability and indicates the atypical coordination of several functional networks involved in emotion generation, emotion perception, attention, internalization, and cognitive control. We lay out an agenda to improve our understanding and detection of atypical brain:behavior patterns through advances in the characterization of both functional networks and irritability as well as the consideration and operationalization of developmental and early life environmental influences on this pathway.

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BrainPsychopathologyAdultChild, PreschoolEmotionsHumansMagnetic Resonance ImagingNational Institute of Mental Health (U.S.)United StatesDevelopmentEarly experienceEmotion regulationfMRIFunctional connectivityFunctional networkImpairmentIrritabilityRDoCTransdiagnositic

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PMID34302863
PMCPMC8802626

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