Biobehavioral Markers of Attention Bias Modification in Temperamental Risk for Anxiety: A Randomized Control Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Children with behavioral inhibition, a temperament characterized by biologically based hypervigilance to novelty and social withdrawal, are at high risk for developing anxiety. This study examined the effect of a novel attention training protocol, attention bias modification (ABM), on symptomatic, behavioral, and neural risk markers in children with behavioral inhibition.

Method

Nine- to 12-year-old typically developing children identified as having behavioral inhibition (N = 84) were assigned to a 4-session active ABM training (n = 43) or placebo protocol (n = 41) using a double-blinded, randomized, controlled trial approach. Anxiety symptoms (Diagnostic Interview Schedule for Children-Fourth Edition), attention bias (AB; measured by a dot-probe task; AB = incongr

SUBMITTER: Liu P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6409187 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature