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Trial reportScientific reports2021

Predicting pediatric anxiety from the temporal pole using neural responses to emotional faces.

Jeffrey Sawalha, Muhammad Yousefnezhad, Alessandro M Selvitella, Bo Cao, Andrew J Greenshaw, Russell Greiner

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Trial report in Scientific reports, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Jeffrey Sawalha *Department of Psychiatry, University of Alberta, Alberta, Canada.
Muhammad Yousefnezhad *Department of Psychiatry, University of Alberta, Alberta, Canada.
Alessandro M SelvitellaDepartment of Mathematical Sciences, Purdue University, Fort Wayne, United States.
Bo CaoDepartment of Psychiatry, University of Alberta, Alberta, Canada.
Andrew J GreenshawDepartment of Psychiatry, University of Alberta, Alberta, Canada.
Russell GreinerDepartment of Psychiatry, University of Alberta, Alberta, Canada. rgreiner@ualberta.ca.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A prominent cognitive aspect of anxiety is dysregulation of emotional interpretation of facial expressions, associated with neural activity from the amygdala and prefrontal cortex. We report machine learning analysis of fMRI results supporting a key role for a third area, the temporal pole (TP) for childhood anxiety in this context. This finding is based on differential fMRI responses to emotional faces (angry versus fearful faces) in children with one or more of generalized anxiety, separation anxiety, and social phobia (n = 22) compared with matched controls (n = 23). In our machine learning (Adaptive Boosting) model, the right TP distinguished anxious from control children (accuracy = 81%). Involvement of the TP as significant for neurocognitive aspects of pediatric anxiety is a novel finding worthy of further investigation.

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AnxietyEmotionsFacial ExpressionFacial RecognitionMachine LearningMagnetic Resonance ImagingPrefrontal CortexAmygdalaChildFemaleHumansLongitudinal StudiesMaleModels, Neurological

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PMID34408203
PMCPMC8373898

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