Impact and centrality of attention dysregulation on cognition, anxiety, and low mood in adolescents.

ABSTRACT: Functional impairments in cognition are frequently thought to be a feature of individuals with depression or anxiety. However, documented impairments are both broad and inconsistent, with little known about when they emerge, whether they are causes or effects of affective symptoms, or whether specific cognitive systems are implicated. Here, we show, in the adolescent ABCD cohort (N = 11,876), that attention dysregulation is a robust factor underlying wide-ranging cognitive task impairments seen in adolescents with moderate to severe anxiety or low mood. We stratified individuals high in DSM-oriented depression or anxiety symptomology, and low in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), as well as vice versa - demonstrating that those high in depression or anxiety dimensions but low

SUBMITTER: Roberts C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10241800 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature