Familial risk for distress and fear disorders and emotional reactivity in adolescence: an event-related potential investigation.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The late positive potential (LPP) is an event-related potential component that is sensitive to the motivational salience of stimuli. Children with a parental history of depression, an indicator of risk, have been found to exhibit an attenuated LPP to emotional stimuli. Research on depressive and anxiety disorders has organized these conditions into two empirical classes: distress and fear disorders. The present study examined whether parental history of distress and fear disorders was associated with the LPP to emotional stimuli in a large sample of adolescent girls.

Method

The sample of 550 girls (ages 13.5-15.5 years) with no lifetime history of depression completed an emotional picture-viewing task and the LPP was measured in response to neutral, pleasant and u

SUBMITTER: Nelson BD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4702485 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature