Emotional and Nonemotional Conflict Processing in Pediatric and Adult Anxiety Disorders.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Perturbations in emotional conflict adaptation, an implicit regulatory process, have been observed in adult anxiety disorders. However, findings remain inconsistent and restricted to adults. The current study compares conflict adaptation in youth and adults, with and without anxiety disorders. We predicted conflict adaptation would be present in the healthy but not the anxious groups.

Methods

In a clinic setting, 111 participants (27 healthy youth, 22 anxious youth, 41 healthy adults, and 21 anxious adults) completed emotional and nonemotional conflict tasks. Groups did not differ (all p's >0.1) on intelligence quotient (IQ), gender, and socioeconomic status; age did not differ between healthy and anxious subjects in either age cohort. Separate four way mixed-desig

SUBMITTER: Gold AL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4691651 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature