ArticleJournal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry2022
Frustration, Cognition, and Psychophysiology in Dysregulated Children: A Research Domain Criteria Approach.
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- Understanding irritability through the lens of self-regulatory control processes in children and adolescents: a systematic review.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2025Pooled it
- Annual Research Review: What processes are dysregulated among emotionally dysregulated youth? - a systematic review.Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines · 2025Pooled it
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- Maternal Depressive Symptoms and Risk for Childhood Depression: Role of Executive Functions.Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry · 2025Observational
- Research Agenda in Childhood Impairing Emotional Outbursts: A Report of the AACAP Presidential Taskforce on Emotional Dysregulation.JAACAP open · 2025Article
- Wearables and behavioral coding show promise for measuring and predicting severe emotional outbursts in children.Frontiers in digital health · 2025Article
- Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Relations Among Irritability, Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Symptoms, and Inhibitory Control.Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry · 2024Article
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- Autistic Symptoms, Irritability, and Executive Dysfunctions: Symptom Dynamics from Multi-Network Models.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2024Article
- Using Wearable Digital Devices to Screen Children for Mental Health Conditions: Ethical Promises and Challenges.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Irritability in Youths: A Critical Integrative Review.The American journal of psychiatry · 2024Review
- A New Behavioral Paradigm for Frustrative Nonreward in Juvenile Mice.Biological psychiatry global open science · 2024Article
- The longitudinal contributions of child language, negative emotionality, and maternal positive affect on toddler executive functioning development.Infant behavior & development · 2023Article
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Abstract
objectiveDysregulated children experience significant impairment in regulating their affect, behavior, and cognitions and are at risk for numerous adverse sequelae. The unclear phenomenology of their symptoms presents a barrier to evidence-based diagnosis and treatment.
methodThe cognitive, behavioral, and psychophysiological mechanisms of dysregulation were examined in a mixed clinical and community sample of 294 children ages 7-17 using the Research Domain Criteria constructs of cognitive control and frustrative nonreward.
resultsResults showed that caregivers of dysregulated children viewed them as having many more problems with everyday executive function than children with moderate or low levels of psychiatric symptoms; however, during standardized assessments of more complex cognitive control tasks, performance of dysregulated children differed only from children with low symptoms on tests of cognitive flexibility. In addition, when frustrated, dysregulated children performed more poorly on the Go/No-Go Task and demonstrated less autonomic flexibility as indexed by low respiratory sinus arrhythmia and pre-ejection period scores.
conclusionThe findings of this study suggest that autonomic inflexibility and impaired cognitive function in the context of frustration may be mechanisms underlying childhood dysregulation.
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