Mom-it helps when you're right here! Attenuation of neural stress markers in anxious youths whose caregivers are present during fMRI.

ABSTRACT: Close proximity to an attachment figure, such as a caregiver, has been shown to attenuate threat-related activity in limbic regions such as the hypothalamus in healthy individuals. We hypothesized that such features might be similarly attenuated by proximity during a potentially stressful situation in a clinically anxious population of youths. Confirmation of this hypothesis could support the role of attachment figures in the management of anxiety among children and adolescents. Three groups were analyzed: anxious children and adolescents who requested that their caregiver accompany them in the scanner room, anxious children and adolescents without their caregiver in the scanner room and healthy controls (each of N = 10). The groups were matched for age and, among the two anxious groups, f

SUBMITTER: Conner OL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3517514 | biostudies-literature | 2012

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature