Patterns of neural connectivity during an attention bias task moderate associations between early childhood temperament and internalizing symptoms in young adulthood.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Biased attention to threat is found in both individuals with anxiety symptoms and children with the childhood temperament of behavioral inhibition (BI). Although perturbed fronto-amygdala function is implicated in biased attention among anxious individuals, no work has examined the neural correlates of attention biases in BI. Work in this area might clarify underlying mechanisms for anxiety in a sample at risk for internalizing disorders. We examined the relations among early childhood BI, fronto-amygdala connectivity during an attention bias task in young adulthood, and internalizing symptoms, assessed in young adulthood.

Methods

Children were assessed for BI at multiple age points from infancy through age seven. On the basis of a composite of observational and m

SUBMITTER: Hardee JE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3725217 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature