Anxiety and threat-related attentional biases in adolescents with fragile X syndrome.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Fragile X syndrome (FXS) is a single-gene disorder highly associated with anxiety; however, measuring anxiety symptoms in FXS and other neurogenetic syndromes is challenged by common limitations in language, self-awareness and cognitive skills required for many traditional assessment tasks. Prior studies have documented group-level differences in threat-related attentional biases, assessed via eye tracking, in FXS and non-FXS groups. The present study built on this work to test whether attentional biases correspond to clinical features of anxiety among adolescents and young adults with FXS.

Methods

Participants included 21 male adolescents with FXS ages 15-20 years who completed an adapted eye-tracking task that measured attentional bias towards fearful faces of v

SUBMITTER: Kelleher BL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7087430 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature