The prefrontal cortex, pathological anxiety, and anxiety disorders

MM Kenwood, NH Kalin, H Barbas - Neuropsychopharmacology, 2022 - nature.com
Anxiety is experienced in response to threats that are distal or uncertain, involving changes
in one's subjective state, autonomic responses, and behavior. Defensive and physiologic …

Migration‐related trauma and mental health among migrant children emigrating from Mexico and Central America to the United States: Effects on developmental …

EM Cohodes, S Kribakaran, P Odriozola… - Developmental …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Children make up over half of the world's migrants and refugees and face a multitude of
traumatic experiences prior to, during, and following migration. Here, we focus on migrant …

Threat appraisal and pediatric anxiety: Proof of concept of a Latent variable approach

RA Bernstein, AR Smith, ER Kitt… - Clinical …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Elevated threat appraisal is a postulated neurodevelopmental mechanism of anxiety
disorders. However, laboratory-assessed threat appraisals are task-specific and subject to …

Real‐time assessment of positive and negative affective fluctuations and mood lability in a transdiagnostic sample of youth

R Naim, S Shaughnessy, A Smith… - Depression and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Background Emotional lability, defined as rapid and/or intense affect fluctuations, is
associated with pediatric psychopathology. Although numerous studies have examined …

Using ecological momentary assessment to enhance irritability phenotyping in a transdiagnostic sample of youth

R Naim, A Smith, A Chue, H Grassie, J Linke… - Development and …, 2021 - cambridge.org
Irritability is a transdiagnostic symptom dimension in developmental psychopathology,
closely related to the Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) construct of frustrative nonreward …

Cardiovascular reactivity as a measure of irritability in a transdiagnostic sample of youth: Preliminary associations

R Naim, MS Goodwin, K Dombek… - … Journal of Methods …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Objectives Irritability is a transdiagnostic symptom in developmental psychopathology,
conceptualized as a low threshold for frustration and increased proneness to anger. While …

Ecological momentary assessment of youth anxiety: Evaluation of psychometrics for use in clinical trials

ME Byrne, RA Bernstein, DS Pine… - Journal of Child and …, 2023 - liebertpub.com
Background: Ecological momentary assessment (EMA) captures naturalistic experience in
real time and holds promise to improve our understanding and treatment of youth …

Converging multi-modal evidence for implicit threat-related bias in pediatric anxiety disorders

R Abend, MA Bajaj, C Matsumoto, M Yetter… - Research on child and …, 2021 - Springer
This report examines the relationship between pediatric anxiety disorders and implicit bias
evoked by threats. To do so, the report uses two tasks that assess implicit bias to negative …

Overcontrol and neural response to errors in pediatric anxiety disorders

K Gilbert, MT Perino, MJ Myers, CM Sylvester - Journal of anxiety disorders, 2020 - Elsevier
Multiple risk factors that may contribute to the development and severity of pediatric anxiety
disorders, one of which is dimensional overcontrol. Overcontrol is a constellation of …

Youth psychopathology in daily life: systematically reviewed characteristics and potentials of ecological momentary assessment applications

MR Thunnissen, M aan het Rot… - Child Psychiatry & …, 2022 - Springer
Traditionally, symptoms of youth psychopathology are assessed with questionnaires, clinical
interviews, or laboratory observations. Ecological Momentary Assessment (EMA) could be a …