Youth Generalized Anxiety and Brain Activation States During Socioemotional Processing.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

The brain enters distinct activation states to support differential cognitive and emotional processes, but little is known about how brain activation states differ in youths with clinical anxiety.

Objective

To characterize brain activation states during socioemotional processing (movie stimuli) and assess associations between state characteristics and movie features and anxiety symptoms.

Design, setting, and participants

The Healthy Brain Network is an ongoing cross-sectional study of individuals aged 5 to 21 years experiencing difficulties in school, of whom approximately 45% met criteria for a lifetime anxiety disorder diagnosis. Data used in this study are from the first 9 releases (collected in a nonclinical research setting in the New York City metropo

SUBMITTER: Camacho MC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11883562 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature