Adolescent social anxiety undermines adolescent-parent interbrain synchrony during emotional processing: A hyperscanning study.

ABSTRACT: Social anxiety severely impacts adolescents' social interactions with others; however, the underlying neural mechanism has not been revealed. This study examined how adolescent's social anxiety level influences the interbrain synchrony within adolescent-parent dyads during emotional processing by using electroencephalograph (EEG) hyperscanning. A sample of 25 adolescent-parent dyads completed the picture processing task. Adolescents' ages ranged from 10 to 14 years old. The results showed that (1) at parietal areas, greater gamma interbrain synchrony was observed in the high social anxiety adolescent-parent dyads (HSAs) than the low social anxiety adolescent-parent dyads (LSAs) in the positive conditions. However, greater gamma interbrain synchrony of the picture processing task was observ

SUBMITTER: Deng X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9449656 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature