Associations between Disorder-Specific Symptoms of Anxiety and Error-Monitoring Brain Activity in Young Children.

ABSTRACT: Anxiety disorders are among the earliest emerging disorders and most common mental health problem across the lifespan. A common characteristic of individuals with anxiety is poor attentional and cognitive control. Therefore, researchers are interested in how cognitive functioning relates to anxiety in young children. In particular, research has demonstrated associations between anxiety and electrophysiological markers of cognitive control skills such as the error-related negativity (ERN). The nature of the anxiety-ERN relationship is not well understood, however. The purpose of the present study was to examine: 1) the association between the ERN and diagnostically-defined symptoms of different anxiety disorders; and 2) the extent to which disorder-specific symptoms of anxiety moderated the

SUBMITTER: Lo SL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5783548 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature