ArticleJournal of psychiatry & neuroscience : JPN2021
Error-related negativity predicts increases in anxiety in a sample of clinically anxious female children and adolescents over 2 years.
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- Translating neurophysiological biomarkers into clinical tools: A psychometric blueprint illustrated with the error-related negativity.The American psychologist · 2025Review
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- The Balance N1 Is Larger in Children With Anxiety and Associated With the Error-Related Negativity.Biological psychiatry global open science · 2025Article
- Toward a mechanistic understanding of the role of error monitoring and memory in social anxiety.Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2024Article
- Error-related brain activity shapes the association between trait neuroticism and internalizing symptomatology in two tasks.International journal of psychophysiology : official journal of the International Organization of Psychophysiology · 2024Article
- Multiple Adaptive Attention-Bias-Modification Programs to Alter Normative Increase in the Error-Related Negativity in Adolescents.Clinical psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science · 2024Article
- The associations among sleep-related difficulties, anxiety, and error-related brain activity in youth.Biological psychology · 2024Article
- Towards a mechanistic understanding of the role of error monitoring and memory in social anxiety.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2023Article
- Translating Big Data to Clinical Outcomes in Anxiety: Potential for Multimodal Integration.Current psychiatry reports · 2022Review
- The relationship between stressful life events and the error-related negativity in children and adolescents.Developmental cognitive neuroscience · 2022Article
- Pre-war induced theta oscillations moderate adolescents' psychological responses to war exposure.International journal of clinical and health psychology : IJCHPArticle
- Targeting self-reported and neural error sensitivity: Short- and long-term effects of a one-week online intervention.International journal of clinical and health psychology : IJCHPArticle
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Abstract
backgroundAn increased neural response to making errors has emerged as a biomarker of anxiety. Error negativity (Ne) or errorrelated negativity (ERN) is an event-related potential generated when people commit errors; the Ne/ERN is greater among people with anxiety and predicts increases in anxiety. However, no previous study has examined whether the Ne/ERN can be used as a prognostic indicator among people with current anxiety. The present study addressed this gap by examining whether the Ne/ERN prospectively predicts increases in anxiety symptoms in clinically anxious children and adolescents.
methodsThe sample included 34 female participants between the ages of 8 and 14 years who met the criteria for a clinical anxiety disorder based on clinical interview. The Ne/ERN was measured using a flanker task.
resultsIncreased Ne/ERN at baseline predicted increases in total anxiety symptoms 2 years later, even when accounting for baseline symptoms. The Ne/ERN predicted increases in the symptom domains of generalized anxiety, social anxiety and harm avoidance/perfectionism, but not panic, separation anxiety, school avoidance or physical symptoms. LIMITATIONS: The sample size was small, which may have inflated the false discovery rate. To mitigate this possibility, we used multiple self-report measures, and the results for the 2 measures (as well as their symptom domains) converged.
conclusionThese data suggest that the Ne/ERN can delineate specific risk trajectories, even among those who already meet the criteria for a clinical anxiety disorder. Considering the need for prognostic markers among people with clinical anxiety, the current findings are an important and novel extension of previous work.
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