Between faces: childhood adversity is associated with reduced threat-safety discrimination during facial expression processing in adolescence.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Childhood adversity has been associated with alterations in threat-related information processing, including heightened perceptual sensitivity and attention bias towards threatening facial expressions, as well as hostile attributions of neutral faces, although there is a large degree of variability and inconsistency in reported findings.

Methods

Here, we aimed to implicitly measure neural facial expression processing in 120 adolescents between 12 and 16 years old with and without exposure to childhood adversity. Participants were excluded if they had any major medical or neurological disorder or intellectual disability, were pregnant, used psychotropic medication or reported acute suicidality or an ongoing abusive situation. We combined fast periodic visual stimul

SUBMITTER: Samaey C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11389258 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature