The N170 to Angry Faces Predicts Anxiety in Typically Developing Children Over a Two-Year Period

O’Toole, Laura; DeCicco, Jennifer M.; Berthod, Samantha; Dennis, Tracy A.

doi:10.1080/87565641.2013.802321

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“…Third, in the present study, enlarged N170 and EPN were found to be associated with implicit ER processing. However, future work could provide further insight through the addition of a non-priming condition, while still implicit, because one may compare results perceived from this condition with existing studies (Rossignol et al, 2005 ; Frenkel and Bar-Haim, 2011 ; Walentowska and Wronka, 2012 ; Otoole et al, 2013 ; Morel et al, 2014 ; Chronaki et al, 2018 ). A non-priming condition could be adopted to attain a “baseline level” state of emotional face processing.…”

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Implicit Emotion Regulation Deficits in Trait Anxiety: An ERP Study

Liu

Wang

2018

Front. Hum. Neurosci.

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According to the framework of emotion regulation (ER), both explicit and implicit forms are essential to our well-being. It is the interaction between these two processes that ensures adaptive emotional responses. Although many studies have focused on explicit ER deficits in anxiety, there is still a lack of awareness about the implicit form and its role in anxiety. To address this issue, we explored the time course of implicit ER processes in individuals with high and low trait anxiety (LTA). To do this, we employed the newly developed Priming-Identify (PI) paradigm, which includes a word-matching task (externally-generated implicit goals) and a facial expression identification task (emotion processing). We aimed to modulate the implicit ER goals of individuals through the application of different priming conditions (ER-related and -unrelated words). In addition to their behavioral effects, we recorded the influence of these priming conditions through event-related potentials (ERPs) during the facial expression identification task. Three ERP components were chosen as indexes of three stages of implicit ER processing: N170, early posterior negativity (EPN) and late positive potential (LPP). In individuals with LTA, the early N170 and the middle EPN were enlarged under the ER-related priming condition, while the LPP was not influenced. However, in individuals with high trait anxiety (HTA), we observed an absence of any significant differences between the ER-related and -unrelated priming conditions across all three ERP components. Furthermore, enlargements of N170 and EPN amplitudes were significantly correlated with a decrease in negative emotion experience scores. Our results suggest that HTA individuals experience implicit ER deficits during the early and middle stages of ER.

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Implicit Emotion Regulation Deficits in Trait Anxiety: An ERP Study

Liu

Wang

2018

Front. Hum. Neurosci.

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“…The results from studies focused on ERP indices of attentional bias have differed somewhat from those obtained from studies using behavioral measures of attentional bias (i.e., reaction time or eye‐tracking indices). The majority of this research has focused on ERP indices of biased attention in anxiety and has generally found that anxiety is associated with both early (e.g., P1, N170) and sustained (LPP) attention to threat‐relevant stimuli [Bar‐Haim et al, ; Holmes et al, ; Eldar et al, ; MacNamara and Hajcak, ; Staugaard, ; Frenkel and Bar‐Haim, ; Solomon et al, ; O'Toole et al, ; Rossignol et al, ]. Although there is considerably less ERP research examining attentional biases in depression than anxiety, there is evidence that depression is associated with reduced sustained attention (smaller LPP and P3b magnitudes) to emotional stimuli.…”

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Attentional biases to emotional stimuli: Key components of the RDoC constructs of sustained threat and loss

Gibb

McGeary

Beevers³

2015

American J of Med Genetics Pt B

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Biased attention to emotional stimuli plays a key role in the RDoC constructs of Sustained Threat and Loss. In this article, we review approaches to assessing these biases, their links with psychopathology, and the underlying neural influences. We then review evidence from twin and candidate gene studies regarding genetic influences on attentional biases. We also discuss the impact of developmental and environmental influences and end with a number of suggestions for future research in this area.

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“…For example, poor attentional control at 6 years of age was associated with high stable and increasing anxiety trajectories across middle to late childhood ( Duchesne et al, 2010 ). In addition, threat biases to angry (versus happy faces; as indicated in enhanced N170 amplitudes) were found to predict increased anxiety over time in children aged 5–7 years ( O’Toole et al, 2013 ). Further studies have found that good attentional control moderates threat biases in anxiety.…”

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Working Memory Training and CBT Reduces Anxiety Symptoms and Attentional Biases to Threat: A Preliminary Study

Hadwin

Richards

2016

Front. Psychol.

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Research indicates that cognitive processes linked to the detection of threat stimuli are associated with poor attentional control, placing children and adolescents at increased risk for the development of anxious affect. The current study aimed to provide preliminary data to assess whether an intervention designed to improve attentional control (via working memory; WM) would lead to better performance in tests of WM and would be associated with positive changes in symptoms of trait and test anxiety, increased inhibitory control and reduced attention to threat. Forty adolescents aged 11–14 years who reported elevated anxiety and low attentional control were randomly allocated to a WM training or an active cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) control group. Post intervention, WM training was associated with greater improvements (versus. CBT) in trained WM tasks. Both groups, however, reported fewer anxiety symptoms, demonstrated increased inhibitory control and a reduction in attentional biases to threat post intervention and these results were maintained at follow up. The study provides indicative evidence which suggests that WM training has similar benefits to a more traditional CBT intervention on reduced anxiety and attentional biases for threat. Future research should aim to replicate the findings in a large sample size and explore the broader impact of training on day-to-day functioning. In addition, further research is needed to identify which participants benefit most from different interventions (using baseline characteristics) on treatment compliance and outcome.

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The N170 to Angry Faces Predicts Anxiety in Typically Developing Children Over a Two-Year Period

Cited by 30 publications

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Implicit Emotion Regulation Deficits in Trait Anxiety: An ERP Study

Implicit Emotion Regulation Deficits in Trait Anxiety: An ERP Study

Attentional biases to emotional stimuli: Key components of the RDoC constructs of sustained threat and loss

Working Memory Training and CBT Reduces Anxiety Symptoms and Attentional Biases to Threat: A Preliminary Study

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