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The influence of emotional stimuli on attention orienting and inhibitory control in pediatric anxiety

Sven Müller (UGent) , Michael Hardin, Karin Mogg, Valerie Benson, Brendan Bradley, Marie Lousie Reinholdt-Dunne, Simon Liversedge, Daniel Pine and Monique Ernst
(2012) JOURNAL OF CHILD PSYCHOLOGY AND PSYCHIATRY. 53(8). p.856-863
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The integrative neuroscience of behavioral control (Neuroscience)
Abstract
Background: Anxiety disorders are highly prevalent in children and adolescents, and are associated with aberrant emotion-related attention orienting and inhibitory control. While recent studies conducted with high-trait anxious adults have employed novel emotion-modified antisaccade tasks to examine the influence of emotional information on orienting and inhibition, similar studies have yet to be conducted in youths. Methods: Participants were 22 children/adolescents diagnosed with an anxiety disorder, and 22 age-matched healthy comparison youths. Participants completed an emotion-modified antisaccade task that was similar to those used in studies of high-trait anxious adults. This task probed the influence of abruptly appearing neutral, happy, angry, or fear stimuli on orienting (prosaccade) or inhibitory (antisaccade) responses. Results: Anxious compared to healthy children showed facilitated orienting toward angry stimuli. With respect to inhibitory processes, threat-related information improved antisaccade accuracy in healthy but not anxious youth. These findings were not linked to individual levels of reported anxiety or specific anxiety disorders. Conclusions: Findings suggest that anxious relative to healthy children manifest enhanced orienting toward threat-related stimuli. In addition, the current findings suggest that threat may modulate inhibitory control during adolescent development.
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ANTISACCADE TASK, EYE-MOVEMENT, FACIAL EXPRESSIONS, DISORDERS, THREAT, PERFORMANCE, BIAS, ADOLESCENCE, PREVALENCE, MECHANISMS, Anxiety, development, children, emotion, orienting, inhibition, bias, saccade

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Müller, Sven, Michael Hardin, Karin Mogg, Valerie Benson, Brendan Bradley, Marie Lousie Reinholdt-Dunne, Simon Liversedge, Daniel Pine, and Monique Ernst. 2012. “The Influence of Emotional Stimuli on Attention Orienting and Inhibitory Control in Pediatric Anxiety.” Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry 53 (8): 856–863.
APA
Müller, Sven, Hardin, M., Mogg, K., Benson, V., Bradley, B., Reinholdt-Dunne, M. L., Liversedge, S., et al. (2012). The influence of emotional stimuli on attention orienting and inhibitory control in pediatric anxiety. JOURNAL OF CHILD PSYCHOLOGY AND PSYCHIATRY, 53(8), 856–863.
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Müller S, Hardin M, Mogg K, Benson V, Bradley B, Reinholdt-Dunne ML, et al. The influence of emotional stimuli on attention orienting and inhibitory control in pediatric anxiety. JOURNAL OF CHILD PSYCHOLOGY AND PSYCHIATRY. 2012;53(8):856–63.
MLA
Müller, Sven, Michael Hardin, Karin Mogg, et al. “The Influence of Emotional Stimuli on Attention Orienting and Inhibitory Control in Pediatric Anxiety.” JOURNAL OF CHILD PSYCHOLOGY AND PSYCHIATRY 53.8 (2012): 856–863. Print.
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  abstract     = {Background: Anxiety disorders are highly prevalent in children and adolescents, and are associated with aberrant emotion-related attention orienting and inhibitory control. While recent studies conducted with high-trait anxious adults have employed novel emotion-modified antisaccade tasks to examine the influence of emotional information on orienting and inhibition, similar studies have yet to be conducted in youths. Methods: Participants were 22 children/adolescents diagnosed with an anxiety disorder, and 22 age-matched healthy comparison youths. Participants completed an emotion-modified antisaccade task that was similar to those used in studies of high-trait anxious adults. This task probed the influence of abruptly appearing neutral, happy, angry, or fear stimuli on orienting (prosaccade) or inhibitory (antisaccade) responses. Results: Anxious compared to healthy children showed facilitated orienting toward angry stimuli. With respect to inhibitory processes, threat-related information improved antisaccade accuracy in healthy but not anxious youth. These findings were not linked to individual levels of reported anxiety or specific anxiety disorders. Conclusions: Findings suggest that anxious relative to healthy children manifest enhanced orienting toward threat-related stimuli. In addition, the current findings suggest that threat may modulate inhibitory control during adolescent development.},
  author       = {M{\"u}ller, Sven and Hardin, Michael and Mogg, Karin and Benson, Valerie and Bradley, Brendan and Reinholdt-Dunne, Marie Lousie and Liversedge, Simon and Pine, Daniel and Ernst, Monique},
  issn         = {0021-9630},
  journal      = {JOURNAL OF CHILD PSYCHOLOGY AND PSYCHIATRY},
  keyword      = {ANTISACCADE TASK,EYE-MOVEMENT,FACIAL EXPRESSIONS,DISORDERS,THREAT,PERFORMANCE,BIAS,ADOLESCENCE,PREVALENCE,MECHANISMS,Anxiety,development,children,emotion,orienting,inhibition,bias,saccade},
  language     = {eng},
  number       = {8},
  pages        = {856--863},
  title        = {The influence of emotional stimuli on attention orienting and inhibitory control in pediatric anxiety},
  url          = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-7610.2012.02541.x},
  volume       = {53},
  year         = {2012},
}
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