Baseline autonomic nervous system activity in female children and adolescents with conduct disorder: Psychophysiological findings from the FemNAT-CD study

Oldenhof, Helena; Prätzlich, Martin; Ackermann, Kathrin; Baker, Rosalind; Batchelor, Molly; Baumann, Sarah; Bernhard, Anka; Clanton, Roberta; Dikeos, Dimitris; Dochnal, Roberta; Fehlbaum, Lynn Valérie; Fernández‐Rivas, Aranzazu; Geus, Eco J. C. de; Gonzalez, Karen; Artaza-Lavesa, Maider González de; Guijarro, Silvina; Gundlach, Malou; Herpertz‐Dahlmann, Beate; Hervás, Amaia; Jansen, Lucres M. C.; Kersten, Linda; Kohls, Gregor; Konsta, Angeliki; Lazaratou, Helen; Kerexeta-Lizeaga, Iñaki; Martinelli, Anne; Nimwegen, Tisse Van; Puzzo, Ignazio; Raschle, Nora Maria; Rogers, Jack C.; Siklósi, Réka; Smaragdi, Areti; Steppan, Martin; Brito, Stéphane A. De; Fairchild, Graeme; Kieser, Meinhard; Konrad, Kerstin; Freitag, Christine M.; Stadler, Christina; Popma, Arne

doi:10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2018.05.011

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“…Contrary to our expectations, within the multi-problem group we found no associations between any of the psychophysiological measurements and their psychopathic traits and aggressive behavior. This is at odds with previous studies(e.g., Latvala et al, 2015;Murray et al, 2016), although other recent studies also failed to find significant associations (Oldenhof et al, 2018;Prätzlich et al, 2018). Additionally, specifically the relationship between low resting heart rate and antisocial behavior has been weakening over the years of research (Portnoy and Farrington, 2015).…”

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No Association Between Autonomic Functioning and Psychopathy and Aggression in Multi-Problem Young Adults

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BackgroundAberrant functioning of the autonomic nervous system (ANS) is an important factor in the occurrence of antisocial behavior. Baseline autonomic functioning and the responsivity of the ANS have been related to psychopathic traits and aggression. Here we investigated whether a naturalistic sample of male multi-problem young adults (age 18–27) present with similar autonomic deficits in relation to their psychopathy and aggression as previous studies observed in clinical samples.MethodsIn a sample of 112 multi-problem young adults, baseline autonomic functioning and autonomic responsivity to emotional stimuli were assessed through four physiological measures: heart rate, respiratory sinus arrhythmia, pre-ejection period, and skin conductance. 27 control participants were included primarily to assess whether the task worked appropriately. Participants watched a neutral 5 min video to assess baseline autonomic functioning and watched two sad clips to assess autonomic reactivity to sadness. We investigated the association between autonomic functioning and self-reported psychopathic traits and aggression within the multi-problem group.ResultsWe found no significant associations between autonomic functioning and psychopathy and aggression.ConclusionThese null-findings highlight the importance of research in naturalistic samples in addition to research in clinical and general populations samples and underscore the complexity of translating research findings into practical and clinical implications.

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No Association Between Autonomic Functioning and Psychopathy and Aggression in Multi-Problem Young Adults

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“…Heart rate variability was indexed by respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA): the difference between the longest inter-beat interval during expiration and the shortest during inspiration (Thayer et al, 2012 ). The pre-ejection period (PEP) was defined as the interval between the start of left ventricular depolarization (q-wave onset in the ECG) and opening of the aortic valve (b-point in the ICG) (Oldenhof et al, 2018 ; Van Lien et al, 2013 ). HR is a measure of general autonomic activity, and results from the interaction between the PNS and SNS.…”

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“…VU-DAMS (v4.0) algorithms were used for ECG/ICG scoring. All data were checked manually for ECG-abnormalities: missing R-peaks were added, premature ventricular contractions and premature atrial contractions were removed and B-point identification was checked for each averaged ICG complex (Oldenhof et al, 2018 ). RSA was specified as missing if >50% of the respiration signal was identified as irregular by the algorithm.…”

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Risk Taking by Adolescents with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD): a Behavioral and Psychophysiological Investigation of Peer Influence

Dekkers

Popma

Sonuga‐Barke

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J Abnorm Child Psychol

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Adolescents with ADHD demonstrate increased risk-taking behavior (RTB) like substance abuse and dangerous traffic conduct. RTB in adolescence is more likely under peer influence. The current investigation (1) tests the hypothesis that adolescents with ADHD are particularly susceptible to such influence and (2) tests whether groups differed in autonomic reactivity to peer influence. Adolescent boys between 12 and 19 years with ( n = 81) and without ( n = 99) ADHD performed the Balloon Analogue Risk Task twice. In the peer condition, a highly credible virtual peer manipulation that encouraged risk taking was added, in the solo condition this was absent. Autonomic reactivity was indexed by heart rate (HR), pre-ejection period (PEP) and respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA). All adolescents engaged in more risk taking in the peer condition relative to solo condition. Autonomic differences between groups were only found on PEP: a stronger sympathetic response to peer influence was observed in typically developing adolescents relative to adolescents with ADHD. Increased physiological stress (as indexed by PEP) in the peer relative to the solo condition predicted peer-induced risk taking in all adolescents. We conclude that susceptibility to peer influence is not exaggerated in ADHD but rather reflects a general tendency of adolescents. As adolescents experiencing peer influence as stressful are most susceptible to peer influence, we suggest that increasing resistance to peer influence may be an important treatment aim for these adolescents specifically. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (10.1007/s10802-020-00666-z) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.

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“…1 PRISMA Flow Diagram * Papers were predominantly excluded for review purposes because CU measures were not used to assess the DSM-5 specifier symptoms. Other reasons were, for example, the use of CU measures that only enable to assess three of the four LPE specifier criteria (Colins 2016;Colins and Vermeiren 2013;Jambroes et al 2016), the lack of formal comparison of CD + LPE with CD Only youth (McMahon et al 2010), or lack of information about the assessment procedure followed to determine a CD diagnosis (Pechorro et al 2015); ** Two papers were identified after checking the references Sakai et al 2017), whilst three papers were identified by advance online publication explorations (Byrd et al 2018;Sethi et al 2018;Oldenhof et al 2018); *** Three of the five aforementioned potentially relevant papers were not included for review purposes because no measures of CD were used (Byrd et al 2018), and because youth who did not met criteria for CD also enrolled in the study whilst analyses were not run separately for youth with a CD diagnosis (Oldenhof et al 2018;Sakai et al 2017); **** Two papers used largely overlapping samples (Colins et al 2017;Van Damme et al 2016), but focused on a different research question, and therefore added significant incremental information to the review. Consequently, both papers were included for review purposes but will be treated as one and the same study magnitude of the significant group differences.…”

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The DSM-5 with Limited Prosocial Emotions Specifier for Conduct Disorder: a Systematic Literature Review

Colins

Damme

Hendriks

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J Psychopathol Behav Assess

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DSM-5 added a categorically defined specifier ('with Limited Prosocial Emotions'; LPE) for the diagnosis of conduct disorder (CD). This paper systematically reviews the evidence base for this specifier in children and adolescents who are diagnosed with CD. Computer-assisted searches were executed and identified 181 potentially relevant papers. Eventually, nine papers were included in this review, referring to eight unique samples. All studies constructed an LPE measure by pulling the same items from the same rating scales that were used in the development of the DSM-5 LPE specifier. The prevalence of youth with CD who met criteria for this novel LPE specifier (CD + LPE) ranged from 6.1% to 83.7%. The studies greatly varied in the features used to test the viability of the DSM-5 LPE specifier. The most commonly used features relate to severity of antisocial behavior, low neuroticism (or lack of anxiety and depression), and treatment responsiveness. Available work altogether showed that CD + LPE youth displayed higher levels of past antisocial behaviour than CD Only youth, but failed to reveal other group differences that corroborate with expectations. Effect sizes typically were in the small to moderate range, suggesting that the practical usefulness of the group differences is limited. Empirical work shows that this specifier should not be used for clinical decision-making when relying on items from measures that have been used in the development of the LPE specifier. Crucially, limitations that hallmark the few studies on the topic hamper any firm conclusion about the usefulness of the specifier.

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Baseline autonomic nervous system activity in female children and adolescents with conduct disorder: Psychophysiological findings from the FemNAT-CD study

Cited by 18 publications

References 87 publications

No Association Between Autonomic Functioning and Psychopathy and Aggression in Multi-Problem Young Adults

No Association Between Autonomic Functioning and Psychopathy and Aggression in Multi-Problem Young Adults

Risk Taking by Adolescents with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD): a Behavioral and Psychophysiological Investigation of Peer Influence

The DSM-5 with Limited Prosocial Emotions Specifier for Conduct Disorder: a Systematic Literature Review

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