Neural Reactivity to Emotional Stimuli in Children With and Without a History of Self-Injurious Thoughts and Behaviors.

ABSTRACT: Suicide is a significant public health concern and a leading cause of death for children in the United States. As such, there is a growing need to identify correlates of self-injurious thoughts and behaviors in youth, particularly potentially modifiable factors that could be targeted by interventions. One potential factor is neural reactivity to emotional stimuli. Prior research has suggested that the late positive potential (LPP), an event-related potential (ERP) component that indexes this reactivity, may be blunted in adults with a history of suicidality (i.e., ideation and/or suicidal behaviors). These findings have been interpreted in the context of cognitive models of risk, which focus on blunted reactivity to emotional stimuli broadly or to positive stimuli specifically (with perhap

SUBMITTER: Shankar P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11806438 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature