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Harold R, Hill KE, Kamat R, Perlman G, Kotov R, Ruggero CJ, Samuel DB, Foti D. Error-related brain activity shapes the association between trait neuroticism and internalizing symptomatology in two tasks. Int J Psychophysiol 2024; 204:112404. [PMID: 39047794 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2024.112404] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/12/2024] [Revised: 06/30/2024] [Accepted: 07/17/2024] [Indexed: 07/27/2024]
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The current study examined how individual differences in error-related brain activity might moderate the association between high trait neuroticism and internalizing symptoms. Data were collected from a sample of high-achieving young adults (N = 188) as part of a larger study on risk versus resiliency for psychopathology. Participants completed two behavioral tasks to elicit the error-related negativity (ERN): an arrow Flanker task and a Go/No-Go task. Analyses were constrained to two internalizing symptom dimensions of checking behavior and irritability. Contrary to expectations, ERN amplitude was not related to symptom severity at the bivariate level. However, ERN amplitude moderated the association between trait neuroticism and symptoms of ill temper, such that the neuroticism-irritability association was strongest among individuals with a blunted ERN. In addition, this finding was relatively consistent across tasks and across two complementary methods of scoring the ERN, suggesting an effect of ERN variance that is shared between tasks and that is relatively robust regarding processing differences. In all, the current study represents the first attempt to investigate how the ERN interacts with trait neuroticism to predict transdiagnostic symptom dimensions in adulthood.
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- Purdue University, United States of America
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- Stony Brook University, United States of America
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- Stony Brook University, United States of America
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- Purdue University, United States of America
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Chung YS, van den Berg B, Roberts KC, Woldorff MG, Gaffrey MS. Electrical brain activations in preadolescents during a probabilistic reward-learning task reflect cognitive processes and behavioral strategy. BIORXIV : THE PREPRINT SERVER FOR BIOLOGY 2024:2023.10.16.562326. [PMID: 37905129 PMCID: PMC10614771 DOI: 10.1101/2023.10.16.562326] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/02/2023]
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Both adults and children learn through feedback which environmental events and choices are associated with higher probability of reward, an ability thought to be supported by the development of fronto-striatal reward circuits. Recent developmental studies have applied computational models of reward learning to investigate such learning in children. However, tasks and measures effective for assaying the cascade of reward-learning neural processes in children have been limited. Using a child-version of a probabilistic reward-learning task while recording event-related-potential (ERP) measures of electrical brain activity, this study examined key processes of reward learning in preadolescents (8-12 years old; n=30), namely: (1) reward-feedback sensitivity, as measured by the early-latency, reward-related, frontal ERP positivity, (2) rapid attentional shifting of processing toward favored visual stimuli, as measured by the N2pc component, and (3) longer-latency attention-related responses to reward feedback as a function of behavioral strategies (i.e., Win-Stay-Lose-Shift), as measured by the central-parietal P300. Consistent with our prior work in adults, the behavioral findings indicate preadolescents can learn stimulus-reward outcome associations, but at varying levels of performance. Neurally, poor preadolescent learners (those with slower learning rates) showed greater reward-related positivity amplitudes relative to good learners, suggesting greater reward-feedback sensitivity. We also found attention shifting towards to-be-chosen stimuli, as evidenced by the N2pc, but not to more highly rewarded stimuli as we have observed in adults. Lastly, we found the behavioral learning strategy (i.e., Win-Stay-Lose-Shift) reflected by the feedback-elicited parietal P300. These findings provide novel insights into the key neural processes underlying reinforcement learning in preadolescents.
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- Yu Sun Chung
- Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Duke University, Reuben-Cooke Building, 417 Chapel Drive, Durham, NC 27708, USA
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- Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience and Neurobiology, Duke University, Durham, NC, 27708 USA
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- Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Duke University, Reuben-Cooke Building, 417 Chapel Drive, Durham, NC 27708, USA
- Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience and Neurobiology, Duke University, Durham, NC, 27708 USA
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- Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Duke University, Reuben-Cooke Building, 417 Chapel Drive, Durham, NC 27708, USA
- Children’s Wisconsin, 9000 W. Wisconsin Avenue, Milwaukee, WI, 53226
- Medical College of Wisconsin, Division of Pediatric Psychology and Developmental Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, 8701 Watertown Plank Road, Milwaukee, WI, 53226
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Thompson KI, Schneider CJ, Lopez-Roque JA, Wakschlag LS, Karim HT, Perlman SB. A network approach to the investigation of childhood irritability: probing frustration using social stimuli. J Child Psychol Psychiatry 2024; 65:959-972. [PMID: 38124618 PMCID: PMC11161318 DOI: 10.1111/jcpp.13937] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 10/31/2023] [Indexed: 12/23/2023]
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BACKGROUND Self-regulation in early childhood develops within a social context. Variations in such development can be attributed to inter-individual behavioral differences, which can be captured both as facets of temperament and across a normal:abnormal dimensional spectrum. With increasing emphasis on irritability as a robust early-life transdiagnostic indicator of broad psychopathological risk, linkage to neural mechanisms is imperative. Currently, there is inconsistency in the identification of neural circuits that underlie irritability in children, especially in social contexts. This study aimed to address this gap by utilizing a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) paradigm to investigate pediatric anger/frustration using social stimuli. METHODS Seventy-three children (M = 6 years, SD = 0.565) were recruited from a larger longitudinal study on irritability development. Caregivers completed questionnaires assessing irritable temperament and clinical symptoms of irritability. Children participated in a frustration task during fMRI scanning that was designed to induce frustration through loss of a desired prize to an animated character. Data were analyzed using both general linear modeling (GLM) and independent components analysis (ICA) and examined from the temperament and clinical perspectives. RESULTS ICA results uncovered an overarching network structure above and beyond what was revealed by traditional GLM analyses. Results showed that greater temperamental irritability was associated with significantly diminished spatial extent of activation and low-frequency power in a network comprised of the posterior superior temporal sulcus (pSTS) and the precuneus (p < .05, FDR-corrected). However, greater severity along the spectrum of clinical expression of irritability was associated with significantly increased extent and intensity of spatial activation as well as low- and high-frequency neural signal power in the right caudate (p < .05, FDR-corrected). CONCLUSIONS Our findings point to specific neural circuitry underlying pediatric irritability in the context of frustration using social stimuli. Results suggest that a deliberate focus on the construction of network-based neurodevelopmental profiles and social interaction along the normal:abnormal irritability spectrum is warranted to further identify comprehensive transdiagnostic substrates of the irritability.
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- Khalil I Thompson
- Department of Psychiatry, Washington University in St Louis School of Medicine, St Louis, MO, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Washington University in St Louis School of Medicine, St Louis, MO, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Washington University in St Louis School of Medicine, St Louis, MO, USA
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- Department of Medical Social Sciences, Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburg School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Washington University in St Louis School of Medicine, St Louis, MO, USA
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Treier AK, Labarga SZ, Ginsberg C, Kohl LT, Görtz-Dorten A, Ravens-Sieberer U, Kaman A, Banaschewski T, Aggensteiner PM, Hanisch C, Kölch M, Daunke A, Roessner V, Kohls G, Döpfner M. Assessment of affective dysregulation in children: development and evaluation of a semi-structured interview for parents and for children. Child Adolesc Psychiatry Ment Health 2024; 18:75. [PMID: 38902809 PMCID: PMC11191270 DOI: 10.1186/s13034-024-00762-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/27/2023] [Accepted: 06/04/2024] [Indexed: 06/22/2024] Open
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BACKGROUND Children with affective dysregulation (AD) show an excessive reactivity to emotionally positive or negative stimuli, typically manifesting in chronic irritability, severe temper tantrums, and sudden mood swings. AD shows a large overlap with externalizing and internalizing disorders. Given its transdiagnostic nature, AD cannot be reliably and validly captured only by diagnostic categories such as disruptive mood dysregulation disorder (DMDD). Therefore, this study aimed to evaluate two semi-structured clinical interviews-one for parents and one for children. METHODS Both interviews were developed based on existing measures that capture particular aspects of AD. We analyzed internal consistencies and interrater agreement to evaluate their reliability. Furthermore, we analyzed factor loadings in an exploratory factor analysis, differences in interview scores between children with and without co-occurring internalizing and externalizing disorders, and associations with other measures of AD and of AD-related constructs. The evaluation was performed in a screened community sample of children aged 8-12 years (n = 445). Interrater reliability was additionally analyzed in an outpatient sample of children aged 8-12 years (n = 27). RESULTS Overall, internal consistency was acceptable to good. In both samples, we found moderate to excellent interrater reliability on a dimensional level. Interrater agreement for the dichotomous diagnosis DMDD was substantial to perfect. In the exploratory factor analysis, almost all factor loadings were acceptable. Children with a diagnosis of disruptive disorder, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, or any disorder (disruptive disorder, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, and depressive disorder) showed higher scores on the DADYS interviews than children without these disorders. The correlation analyses revealed the strongest associations with other measures of AD and measures of AD-specific functional impairment. Moreover, we found moderate to very large associations with internalizing and externalizing symptoms and moderate to large associations with emotion regulation strategies and health-related quality of life. CONCLUSIONS The analyses of internal consistency and interrater agreement support the reliability of both clinical interviews. Furthermore, exploratory factor analysis, discriminant analyses, and correlation analyses support the interviews' factorial, discriminant, concurrent, convergent, and divergent validity. The interviews might thus contribute to the reliable and valid identification of children with AD and the assessment of treatment responses. TRIAL REGISTRATION ADOPT Online: German Clinical Trials Register (DRKS) DRKS00014963. Registered 27 June 2018.
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- Anne-Katrin Treier
- School of Child and Adolescent Cognitive Behavior Therapy (AKiP), Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany.
- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany.
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- School of Child and Adolescent Cognitive Behavior Therapy (AKiP), Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
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- School of Child and Adolescent Cognitive Behavior Therapy (AKiP), Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
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- School of Child and Adolescent Cognitive Behavior Therapy (AKiP), Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
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- School of Child and Adolescent Cognitive Behavior Therapy (AKiP), Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
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- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychotherapy, and Psychosomatics, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
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- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychotherapy, and Psychosomatics, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
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- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Central Institute of Mental Health, Medical Faculty Mannheim, University of Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany
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- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Central Institute of Mental Health, Medical Faculty Mannheim, University of Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany
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- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry/Psychotherapy, University Hospital Ulm, Ulm, Germany
- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Neurology, Psychosomatics, and Psychotherapy, University Medical Center Rostock, Rostock, Germany
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- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Neurology, Psychosomatics, and Psychotherapy, University Medical Center Rostock, Rostock, Germany
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- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, TUD Dresden University of Technology, Dresden, Germany
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- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, TUD Dresden University of Technology, Dresden, Germany
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- School of Child and Adolescent Cognitive Behavior Therapy (AKiP), Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
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Elvin OM, Modecki KL, Waters AM. An Expanded Conceptual Framework for Understanding Irritability in Childhood: The Role of Cognitive Control Processes. Clin Child Fam Psychol Rev 2024; 27:381-406. [PMID: 38856946 PMCID: PMC11222227 DOI: 10.1007/s10567-024-00489-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 05/08/2024] [Indexed: 06/11/2024]
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Children prone to irritability experience significant functional impairments and internalising and externalising problems. Contemporary models have sought to elucidate the underlying mechanisms in irritability, such as aberrant threat and reward biases to improve interventions. However, the cognitive control processes that underlie threat (e.g., attention towards threats) and reward (e.g., attention towards reward-related cues) biases and the factors which influence the differential activation of positive and negative valence systems and thus leading to maladaptive activation of cognitive control processes (i.e., proactive and reactive control) are unclear. Thus, we aim to integrate extant theoretical and empirical research to elucidate the cognitive control processes underlying threat and reward processing that contribute to irritability in middle childhood and provide a guiding framework for future research and treatment. We propose an expanded conceptual framework of irritability that includes broad intraindividual and environmental vulnerability factors and propose proximal 'setting' factors that activate the negative valence and positive valence systems and proactive and reactive cognitive control processes which underpin the expression and progression of irritability. We consider the implications of this expanded conceptualisation of irritability and provide suggestions for future research.
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- Olivia M Elvin
- School of Applied Psychology, Griffith University, Mount Gravatt Campus, Brisbane, QLD, Australia.
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- Centre for Mental Health and School of Applied Psychology, Griffith University, Mount Gravatt Campus, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
- School of Psychological Science, University of Western Australia & Telethon Kids Institute, Perth, Australia
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- Centre for Mental Health and School of Applied Psychology, Griffith University, Mount Gravatt Campus, Brisbane, QLD, Australia.
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Harold R, Donaldson KR, Rollock D, Kotov R, Perlman G, Foti D. Abnormal neurophysiological sensitivity to rewards in depression is moderated by sex and age in middle adulthood. Biol Psychol 2023; 182:108623. [PMID: 37390960 PMCID: PMC10529463 DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2023.108623] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/18/2022] [Revised: 06/20/2023] [Accepted: 06/26/2023] [Indexed: 07/02/2023]
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A candidate pathophysiological process in major depressive disorder is diminished neural reactivity to reward delivery, which is theorized to give rise to anhedonia. Reduced amplitude in the reward positivity (RewP), which captures initial reward evaluation, has been linked to current symptoms of depression among child, adolescent, and young adult samples. However, the developmental trajectory of this association is incomplete, with relatively few studies in middle and older adulthood. Further, emerging evidence in the literature also suggests that this association may be linked to female sex-specific processes, but no studies to date have directly contrasted the effect of sex on the depression-RewP association. The current study sought to address these gaps by testing how sex and age may moderate the depression-RewP association within a mature adult community sample. Symptoms of depression were evaluated using a survey and a clinical interview, and the RewP was elicited using a simple guessing task. There was a three-way interaction between depression symptom severity, age, and sex in predicting RewP amplitude. This was driven by younger (late 30's to early 40's) female-sexed people such that for this group, elevated symptoms of depression were associated with blunting of the RewP. This association tapered around age 50. This effect was specific to clinician-rated rather than self-reported depressive symptom severity. This pattern of effects suggests that among female-sexed people, developmental processes continue to shape the association between reward responsiveness and depression throughout middle adulthood.
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- Roslyn Harold
- Purdue University, Department of Psychological Sciences, 703 Third Street, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA.
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- Stony Brook University, Department of Psychology, Psychology B Building, Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA
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- Purdue University, Department of Psychological Sciences, 703 Third Street, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA
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- Stony Brook University, Department of Psychiatry, 101 Nicolls Rd, Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA
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- Stony Brook University, Department of Psychiatry, 101 Nicolls Rd, Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA
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- Purdue University, Department of Psychological Sciences, 703 Third Street, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA
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Diagnostic instruments for the assessment of disruptive mood dysregulation disorder: a systematic review of the literature. Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry 2023; 32:17-39. [PMID: 34232390 PMCID: PMC9908712 DOI: 10.1007/s00787-021-01840-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/25/2020] [Accepted: 06/28/2021] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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Disruptive mood dysregulation disorder (DMDD) involves non-episodic irritability and frequent severe temper outbursts in children. Since the inclusion of the diagnosis in the DSM-5, there is no established gold-standard in the assessment of DMDD. In this systematic review of the literature, we provide a synopsis of existing diagnostic instruments for DMDD. Bibliographic databases were searched for any studies assessing DMDD. The systematic search of the literature yielded K = 1167 hits, of which n = 110 studies were included. The most frequently used measure was the Kiddie Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia DMDD module (25%). Other studies derived diagnostic criteria from interviews not specifically designed to measure DMDD (47%), chart review (7%), clinical diagnosis without any specific instrument (6%) or did not provide information about the assessment (9%). Three structured interviews designed to diagnose DMDD were used in six studies (6%). Interrater reliability was reported in 36% of studies (ranging from κ = 0.6-1) while other psychometric properties were rarely reported. This systematic review points to a variety of existing diagnostic measures for DMDD with good reliability. Consistent reporting of psychometric properties of recently developed DMDD interviews, as well as their further refinement, may help to ascertain the validity of the diagnosis.
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Waxmonsky J, Fosco W, Waschbusch D, Babinski D, Baweja R, Pegg S, Cao V, Shroff D, Kujawa A. The Impact of Irritability and Callous Unemotional Traits on Reward Positivity in Youth with ADHD and Conduct Problems. Res Child Adolesc Psychopathol 2022; 50:1027-1040. [PMID: 35182261 PMCID: PMC9388699 DOI: 10.1007/s10802-022-00901-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 01/16/2022] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and conduct problems exhibit significant variability in functioning and treatment response that cannot be fully accounted for by differences in symptom severity. Reward responsivity (RR) is a potential transdiagnostic means to account for this variability. Irritability and callous-unemotional (CU) traits moderate associations between both ADHD and conduct problems with multiple realms of functioning. Both are theorized to be associated with RR, but associations in clinical samples are unknown. In 48 youth ages 5-12 with ADHD referred for treatment of conduct problems, we examined RR using a guessing task where participants select a door icon to win and lose money. Analyses focused on the reward positivity (RewP) event-related potential in response to gain and loss feedback, which reliably peaks approximately 300 ms after feedback. Frequentist and Bayesian approaches assessed main effects of ADHD, Conduct Disorder (CD) and non-irritable Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD) symptoms with RR, plus interactions between symptoms and affective dimensions (irritability, CU). CD and ODD were hypothesized to be associated with altered RR, with irritability and CU moderating these associations. Across models, a reliable CD x irritability interaction emerged, indicating enhanced RewP when irritability was elevated and CD symptoms were low. CU did not moderate any associations with RR, and little support was found for associations between RR and other symptom domains. As neural response to reward varied with levels of irritability and CD symptoms, RR may hold potential as a clinically-relevant biomarker in youth with ADHD and conduct problems.
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- James Waxmonsky
- Department of Psychiatry, Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, PA, USA.
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- Department of Psychiatry, Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, PA, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, PA, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, PA, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, PA, USA
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- Department of Psychology and Human Development, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, PA, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, PA, USA
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- Department of Psychology and Human Development, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA
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Kryza-Lacombe M, Palumbo D, Wakschlag LS, Dougherty LR, Wiggins JL. Executive functioning moderates neural mechanisms of irritability during reward processing in youth. Psychiatry Res Neuroimaging 2022; 323:111483. [PMID: 35561577 PMCID: PMC9829104 DOI: 10.1016/j.pscychresns.2022.111483] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/29/2021] [Revised: 03/13/2022] [Accepted: 04/14/2022] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
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Pediatric irritability is the most robust indicator of transdiagnostic psychopathology risk. It is associated with altered neural reward processing, including neural networks related to cognitive control, and better cognitive control has been hypothesized to mitigate irritability. We evaluated the relationship of executive functioning (EF) with irritability-related neural correlates of reward processing in youths with varying levels of irritability. Participants (N = 51, mean age=13.80 years, SD=1.94) completed a monetary incentive delay task during multiband fMRI acquisition. Irritability and EF were measured via the Affective Reactivity Index and the NIH Toolbox cognition battery, respectively. Whole-brain analyses, controlling for age, examined the moderating role of EF on irritability-related brain activation and connectivity (seeds: striatum, amygdala) during reward anticipation and performance feedback. Irritability-related neural patterns during reward processing depended on EF, in occipital areas during reward anticipation and limbic, frontal, and temporal networks during performance feedback. Higher irritability combined with higher EF was associated with neural patterns opposite to those observed for higher irritability with lower co-occurring EF. Although preliminary, findings suggest that EF may buffer irritability-related reward processing deficits. Additionally, individual differences in EF and their relation to irritability may be related to varied etiologic mechanisms of irritability with important implications for personalized prevention and intervention.
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- Maria Kryza-Lacombe
- San Diego State University/University of California, San Diego Joint Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology, United States.
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- Department of Psychology, San Diego State University, United States
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- Department of Medical Social Sciences, Feinberg School of Medicine, & Institute for Innovations in Developmental Sciences, Northwestern University, United States
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- University of Maryland, Department of Psychology, United States
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- San Diego State University/University of California, San Diego Joint Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology, United States; Department of Psychology, San Diego State University, United States
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Hennefield L, Gilbert K, Whalen D, Giorio C, Quiñones Camacho LE, Kelly D, Fleuchaus E, Barch DM, Luby JL, Hajcak G. The reward positivity shows increased amplitude and decreased latency with increasing age in early childhood. Dev Sci 2022; 25:e13196. [PMID: 34802176 PMCID: PMC9012693 DOI: 10.1111/desc.13196] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/10/2021] [Revised: 09/07/2021] [Accepted: 11/15/2021] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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The reward positivity (RewP) is a widely studied measure of neural response to rewards, yet little is known about normative developmental characteristics of the RewP during early childhood. The present study utilized a pooled community sample of 309 4- to 6-year-old children who participated in the Doors guessing game to examine the latency and amplitude of the RewP. Peak detection of the gain-loss difference waveform was conducted for electrodes Fz, Cz, Pz, Oz and the mean activity in a 100 ms window centered around this peak was analyzed. There was a significant decrease in RewP latency (RewP was earlier) and increase in RewP amplitude (RewP magnitude was larger) with advancing age in this cross-sectional analysis. Further, these were independent effects, as both RewP latency and RewP amplitude were uniquely associated with children's age. Moreover, our results indicate that the RewP latency in 4- to 6-year-olds falls outside the 250-350 ms window typically used to quantify the RewP (RewP latency in our sample = 381 ms; SD = 60.15). The internal consistency for latency (.64) and amplitude (.27) of the RewP were characterized by moderate to low reliability, consistent with previous work on the reliability of difference scores. Overall, results demonstrate RewP differences in both timing and amplitude across age in early childhood, and suggest that both amplitude and latency of the RewP might function as individual difference measures of reward processing. These findings are discussed in the context of methodological considerations and the development of reward processing across early childhood.
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- Laura Hennefield
- Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
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- Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
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- Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
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- Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
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- Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
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- Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
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- Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
- Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
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- Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
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- Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, USA
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Pacheco J, Garvey MA, Sarampote CS, Cohen ED, Murphy ER, Friedman-Hill SR. Annual Research Review: The contributions of the RDoC research framework on understanding the neurodevelopmental origins, progression and treatment of mental illnesses. J Child Psychol Psychiatry 2022; 63:360-376. [PMID: 34979592 PMCID: PMC8940667 DOI: 10.1111/jcpp.13543] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 20.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 09/29/2021] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) proposed the Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) initiative as an alternate way to organize research of mental illnesses, by looking at dimensions of functioning rather than being tied to categorical diagnoses. This paper briefly discusses the motivation for and organization of RDoC, and then explores the NIMH portfolio and recent work to monitor the utility and progress that RDoC has afforded developmental research. To examine how RDoC has influenced the NIMH developmental research portfolio over the last decade, we employed a natural language processing algorithm to identify the number of developmental science grants classified as incorporating an RDoC approach. Additional portfolio analyses examine temporal trends in funded RDoC-relevant grants, publications and citations, and research training opportunities. Reflecting on how RDoC has influenced the focus of grant applications, we highlight examples from research on Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), childhood irritability, and Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Lastly, we consider how the dimensional and transdiagnostic approaches emphasized in RDoC have facilitated research on personalized intervention for heterogeneous disorders and preventive/early interventions targeting emergent or subthreshold psychopathology.
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- Jennifer Pacheco
- Division of Translational Research, National Institute of Mental Health
- RDoC Unit, National Institute of Mental Health
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- Office of Science Policy, Planning, and Communications, National Institute of Mental Health
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- Division of Translational Research, National Institute of Mental Health
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Sabri Y. Diagnosis of disruptive mood dysregulation disorder in offsprings of bipolar parents. MIDDLE EAST CURRENT PSYCHIATRY 2022. [DOI: 10.1186/s43045-022-00186-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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Abstract
Background
Disruptive mood dysregulation disorder (DMDD) was introduced in (DSM-5) as a new diagnostic category to get control on the exaggerated diagnosis of bipolar disorder in children and adolescents which was elevated more than 40 times in the last decade. Few studies were done recently to explore the role of family history of bipolar disorder in the occurrence of DMDD in children and adolescents. Unfortunately, there is limited number of studies about the familial transmission of DMDD.
The aim of this study is to examine the presence of a relation between DMDD and the presence of a family history of bipolar disorder through comparing the diagnosis of DMDD in offspring of parents with (a) bipolar disorder and (b) a control group.
Results
The distribution of psychiatric disorders among the studied groups highlighted that DMDD and depressive disorder are significantly present in the offsprings of bipolar parents more than in the offsprings of control parents. DMDD is significantly present among offsprings of bipolar parents aged ≤ 11 years old (p = 0.008*). Also, DMDD is significantly (p = 0.02) present among male offsprings of bipolar parents. Also, depressive disorder is significantly (p = 0.002) present among female offsprings of control parents. While significant comorbidity between DMDD and depressive disorders (p = 0.018*) was detected.
Conclusions
This study revealed that DMDD and depressive disorders are significantly present in the offsprings of bipolar parents higher than in the offsprings of control parents. DMDD is significantly present among the offsprings of bipolar parents aged ≤ 11 years old.
The relation between sex and affective disorders among the offsprings was also assessed revealing that DMDD is significantly present among male offsprings of bipolar parents. Also, depressive disorders are significantly present among female offsprings of control parents.
Potential implications
This study has several clinical implications. This study draws attention to the importance of the careful assessment of the offsprings of bipolar patients to check the presence of different childhood psychiatric disorders such as DMDD. Also, symptoms of temper outbursts and persistent irritability in childhood require the necessary of psychiatric evaluation not only for the patients but also for their families. In addition, this study highlights the need for accurate updated diagnostic instruments to differentiate between these overlapping symptoms.
As regards implications for future research, following-up of children diagnosed with DMDD to recognize the prognostic outcome of this new diagnostic category is necessary.
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Ostlund B, Myruski S, Buss K, Pérez-Edgar KE. The centrality of temperament to the research domain criteria (RDoC): The earliest building blocks of psychopathology. Dev Psychopathol 2021; 33:1584-1598. [PMID: 34365985 PMCID: PMC10039756 DOI: 10.1017/s0954579421000511] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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The research domain criteria (RDoC) is an innovative approach designed to explore dimensions of human behavior. The aim of this approach is to move beyond the limits of psychiatric categories in the hope of aligning the identification of psychological health and dysfunction with clinical neuroscience. Despite its contributions to adult psychopathology research, RDoC undervalues ontogenetic development, which circumscribes our understanding of the etiologies, trajectories, and maintaining mechanisms of psychopathology risk. In this paper, we argue that integrating temperament research into the RDoC framework will advance our understanding of the mechanistic origins of psychopathology beginning in infancy. In illustrating this approach, we propose the incorporation of core principles of temperament theories into a new "life span considerations" subsection as one option for infusing development into the RDoC matrix. In doing so, researchers and clinicians may ultimately have the tools necessary to support emotional development and reduce a young child's likelihood of psychological dysfunction beginning in the first years of life.
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- Brendan Ostlund
- Department of Psychology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, US
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- Department of Psychology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, US
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- Department of Psychology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, US
- Department of Human Development and Family Studies, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, US
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James KM, Foster CE, Tsypes A, Owens M, Gibb BE. Maternal criticism and children's neural responses to reward and loss. J Exp Child Psychol 2021; 211:105226. [PMID: 34252754 PMCID: PMC9887476 DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2021.105226] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/09/2020] [Revised: 06/08/2021] [Accepted: 06/10/2021] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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Parental criticism is linked to a number of detrimental child outcomes. One mechanism by which parental criticism may increase risk for negative outcomes in children is through children's neural responses to valenced information in the environment. The goal of the current study, therefore, was to examine the relation between maternal criticism and children's neural responses to monetary gains and losses. To represent daily environmental experiences of reward and punishment, we focused on reactivity to monetary gains versus losses in a guessing task. Participants were 202 children and their mothers recruited from the community. The average age of the children was 9.71 years (SD = 1.38, range = 7-11), with 52.0% of them male and 72.8% Caucasian. Mothers completed the Five Minute Speech Sample to assess expressed emotion-criticism, and of these dyads 51 mothers were rated as highly critical. In addition, children completed a simple guessing game during which electroencephalography was recorded. Children of critical mothers displayed less neural reactivity to both monetary gain and loss than children without critical mothers. Our results were at least partially independent of children's and mothers' current levels of internalizing psychopathology. These findings suggest that children exposed to maternal criticism may exhibit disruptions in adaptive responses to environmental experiences regardless of valence. Targeted interventions aimed at reducing expressed emotion-criticism may lead to changes in a child's reward responsiveness and risk for psychopathology.
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- University of South Florida, St. Petersburg
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- Binghamton University (State University of New York), Binghamton, NY 13902, USA
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Klein DN, Dougherty LR, Kessel EM, Silver J, Carlson GA. A Transdiagnostic Perspective on Youth Irritability. CURRENT DIRECTIONS IN PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE 2021; 30:437-443. [PMID: 35046617 PMCID: PMC8765598 DOI: 10.1177/09637214211035101] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 07/26/2023]
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Irritability is increasingly recognized as a significant clinical problem in youth. It is a criterion for multiple diagnoses and predicts the development of a wide range of disorders. Research on etiopathogenesis suggests that genetic and family environmental factors play a role, as do abnormalities in reward and cognitive control circuitry. However, many of these effects are age dependent. Threat-responsive self-regulatory systems and the degree to which irritability manifests as tonic or phasic influence whether irritable youth exhibit more internalizing versus externalizing outcomes.
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- Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Columbia University and New York State Psychiatric Institute
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Limited research has examined precursors/risk factors for adolescent irritability. This study examines continuity of irritability from early childhood to adolescence and identifies antecedents of adolescent irritability. Across self-reports and mother-reports, evidence was found for continuity of irritability. A range of variables assessed at age 3 predicted irritability at age 15. These findings suggest that adolescent irritability is characterized by distinct developmental pathways from age 3 that have potential to result in an irritable phenotype at age 15. Adolescent-reported and mother-reported irritability may be capturing distinct underlying constructs of irritability; both should be considered in assessments of adolescent irritability.
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Dickstein DP, Barthelemy CM, Jenkins GA, DeYoung LLA, Gilbert AC, Radoeva P, Kim KL, MacPherson HA. This Is Your Brain on Irritability: A Clinician's Guide to Understanding How We Know What We Know Now, and What We Need to Know in the Future, About Irritability in Children and Adolescents. Child Adolesc Psychiatr Clin N Am 2021; 30:649-666. [PMID: 34053692 DOI: 10.1016/j.chc.2021.04.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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Irritability is a common reason why children and adolescents are brought for psychiatric care. Although research is advancing what is known about the underlying brain and behavior mechanisms of irritability, clinicians often are shut out of that research. This article explains some of these research methods, providing brief summaries of what is known about brain/behavior mechanisms in disorders involving irritability, including bipolar disorder, disruptive mood dysregulation disorder, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, and autism spectrum disorder. Greater access to these methods may help clinicians now and in the future, with such mechanisms translated into improved care, as occurs in the treatment of childhood leukemia.
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- Daniel P Dickstein
- PediMIND Program, Mclean Hospital, 115 Mill Street, Belmont, MA, USA; Simches Center of Excellence in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, McLean Hospital, Harvard Medical School.
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- PediMIND Program, Mclean Hospital, 115 Mill Street, Belmont, MA, USA; Simches Center of Excellence in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, McLean Hospital, Harvard Medical School
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- PediMIND Program, Mclean Hospital, 115 Mill Street, Belmont, MA, USA; Simches Center of Excellence in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, McLean Hospital, Harvard Medical School
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- PediMIND Program, Mclean Hospital, 115 Mill Street, Belmont, MA, USA; Simches Center of Excellence in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, McLean Hospital, Harvard Medical School
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- Division of Child Psychiatry, Brown University (Prior PediMIND Program Members)
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- Division of Child Psychiatry, Brown University (Prior PediMIND Program Members)
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- Division of Child Psychiatry, Brown University (Prior PediMIND Program Members)
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Giller F, Aggensteiner PM, Banaschewski T, Döpfner M, Brandeis D, Roessner V, Beste C. Affective Dysregulation in Children Is Associated With Difficulties in Response Control in Emotional Ambiguous Situations. BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY: COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE AND NEUROIMAGING 2021; 7:66-75. [PMID: 33857639 DOI: 10.1016/j.bpsc.2021.03.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/19/2020] [Revised: 03/16/2021] [Accepted: 03/17/2021] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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BACKGROUND Affective dysregulation (AD), or synonymously "irritability," is a transdiagnostic construct that serves as a diagnostic criterion in various childhood mental disorders. It is characterized by severe or persistent outbursts of anger and aggression. Emotional self-regulation is highly dependent on the ability to process relevant and ignore conflicting emotional information. Understanding neurophysiological mechanisms underlying impairment in AD may provide a starting point for research on pharmacological treatment options and evaluation of psychotherapeutic intervention. METHODS A total of 120 children 8 to 12 years of age (63 with AD and 57 typically developing) were examined using an emotional Stroop task. Signal-decomposed electroencephalographic recordings providing information about the affected sensory-perceptual, response selection, or motor information processing stage were combined with source localization. RESULTS Behavioral performance revealed dysfunctional cognitive-emotional conflict monitoring in children with AD, suggesting difficulties in differentiating between conflicting and nonconflicting cognitive-emotional information. This was confirmed by the electroencephalographic data showing that they cannot intensify response selection processes during conflicting cognitive-emotional situations. Typically developing children were able to do so and activated a functional-neuroanatomical network comprising the left inferior parietal cortex (Brodmann area 40), right middle frontal (Brodmann area 10), and right inferior/orbitofrontal (Brodmann area 47) regions. Purely sensory-perceptual selection and motor execution processes were not modulated in AD, as evidenced by Bayesian analyses. CONCLUSIONS Behavioral and electroencephalogram data suggest that children with AD cannot adequately modulate controlled response selection processes given emotionally ambiguous information. Which neurotransmitter systems underlie these deficits and how they can be improved are important questions for future research.
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- Franziska Giller
- Department of Cognitive Neurophysiology, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany
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- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Central Institute of Mental Health, Medical Faculty Mannheim/Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany
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- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Central Institute of Mental Health, Medical Faculty Mannheim/Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany
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- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Department of Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy, Medical Faculty, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany; School for Child and Adolescent Cognitive Behavior Therapy, Medical Faculty, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
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- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Central Institute of Mental Health, Medical Faculty Mannheim/Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany; Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Hospital of Psychiatry Zurich, University of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland; Neuroscience Center Zürich, University and Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
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- Department of Cognitive Neurophysiology, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany
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- Department of Cognitive Neurophysiology, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany.
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Wiggins JL, Briggs-Gowan MJ, Brotman MA, Leibenluft E, Wakschlag LS. Toward a Developmental Nosology for Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder in Early Childhood. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 2021; 60:388-397. [PMID: 32599006 PMCID: PMC7769590 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaac.2020.04.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/30/2019] [Revised: 03/30/2020] [Accepted: 06/17/2020] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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OBJECTIVE Disruptive mood dysregulation disorder (DMDD) in DSM, characterized by severe, chronic irritability, currently excludes children <6 years of age. However, capitalizing on a burgeoning developmental science base to differentiate clinically salient irritability in young children may enable earlier identification. The objective of this study was to advance an empirically derived framework for early childhood DMDD (EC-DMDD) by modeling and validating DMDD patterns in early childhood and generating clinically informative, optimized behaviors with thresholds. METHOD Data (N = 425) were from 3 longitudinal assessments of the MAPS Study, spanning preschool (means = 4.7 and 5.5 years) to early school age (mean = 6.8 years). The Multidimensional Assessment Profile of Disruptive Behavior (MAP-DB) Temper Loss scale captured irritability, the Family Life Impairment Scale (FLIS) assessed cross-domain impairment at the preschool time points and the Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia for School-Age Children (K-SADS) was used to assess clinical status at early school age. Latent transition analyses differentiated children with EC-DMDD from children with low, transient, or nonimpairing irritability. RESULTS Developmental patterning of irritability proved important for normal:abnormal differentiation. Of children, 27% had initially high irritability, but only two-thirds of these were persistently highly irritable. Thus, "false positives" based on a single screen would be substantial. Yet, "false negatives" are low, as <1% of children with baseline low irritability demonstrated later high irritability. Based on the sequential preschool-age time points, 6.7% of children were identified with EC-DMDD, characterized by persistent irritability with pervasive impairment, similar to prevalence at older ages. Specific behaviors included low frustration tolerance; dysregulated, developmentally unexpectable tantrums; and sustained irritable mood, all of which sensitively (0.85-0.96) and specifically (0.80-0.91) identified EC-DMDD. EC-DMDD predicted irritability-related syndromes (DMDD, oppositional defiant disorder) at early school age better than downward extension of DSM DMDD criteria to preschool age. CONCLUSION These findings provide empirical thresholds for preschool-age clinical identification of DMDD patterns. The results lay the foundation for validation of DMDD in early childhood and inform revision of DSM criteria.
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- Jillian Lee Wiggins
- San Diego State University and the San Diego State University/University of California San Diego Joint Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology, California.
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- Emotion and Development Branch, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
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- Emotion and Development Branch, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
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- Feinberg School of Medicine and Institute for Innovations in Developmental Sciences, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois
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Kryza-Lacombe M, Hernandez B, Owen C, Reynolds RC, Wakschlag LS, Dougherty LR, Wiggins JL. Neural mechanisms of reward processing in adolescent irritability. Dev Psychobiol 2021; 63:1241-1254. [PMID: 33462834 PMCID: PMC10171261 DOI: 10.1002/dev.22090] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/23/2020] [Revised: 12/16/2020] [Accepted: 12/17/2020] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Irritability is impairing and prevalent across pediatric psychiatric disorders and typical development, yet its neural mechanisms are largely unknown. This study evaluated the relation between adolescent irritability and reward-related brain function as a candidate neural mechanism. Adolescents from intervention-seeking families in the community (N = 52; mean age = 13.80, SD = 1.94) completed a monetary incentive delay task to assess reward anticipation and feedback (reward receipt and omission) during fMRI acquisition. Whole-brain analyses, controlling for age, examined brain activation and striatal and amygdala connectivity in relation to irritability. Irritability was measured using the parent- and youth-reported Affective Reactivity Index. Irritability was associated with altered reward processing-related activation and connectivity in multiple networks during reward anticipation and feedback, including increased striatal activation and altered ventral striatum connectivity with prefrontal areas. Our findings suggest that irritability is associated with altered neural patterns during reward processing and that aberrant prefrontal cortex-mediated top-down control may be related to irritability. These findings inform our understanding of the etiology of youth irritability and the development of mechanism-based interventions.
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- Maria Kryza-Lacombe
- San Diego State University/University of California, San Diego Joint Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology, San Diego, CA, USA
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- Department of Psychology, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA, USA
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- Department of Psychology, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA, USA
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- Scientific and Statistical Computing Core, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Department of Medical Social Sciences, Feinberg School of Medicine & Institute for Innovations in Developmental Sciences, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA
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- San Diego State University/University of California, San Diego Joint Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology, San Diego, CA, USA.,Department of Psychology, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA, USA
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Filippi CA, Subar AR, Sachs JF, Kircanski K, Buzzell G, Pagliaccio D, Abend R, Fox NA, Leibenluft E, Pine DS. Developmental pathways to social anxiety and irritability: The role of the ERN. Dev Psychopathol 2020; 32:897-907. [PMID: 31656217 PMCID: PMC7265174 DOI: 10.1017/s0954579419001329] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Early behaviors that differentiate later biomarkers for psychopathology can guide preventive efforts while also facilitating pathophysiological research. We tested whether error-related negativity (ERN) moderates the link between early behavior and later psychopathology in two early childhood phenotypes: behavioral inhibition and irritability. From ages 2 to 7 years, children (n = 291) were assessed longitudinally for behavioral inhibition (BI) and irritability. Behavioral inhibition was assessed via maternal report and behavioral responses to novelty. Childhood irritability was assessed using the Child Behavior Checklist. At age 12, an electroencephalogram (EEG) was recorded while children performed a flanker task to measure ERN, a neural indicator of error monitoring. Clinical assessments of anxiety and irritability were conducted using questionnaires (i.e., Screen for Child Anxiety Related Disorders and Affective Reactivity Index) and clinical interviews. Error monitoring interacted with early BI and early irritability to predict later psychopathology. Among children with high BI, an enhanced ERN predicted greater social anxiety at age 12. In contrast, children with high childhood irritability and blunted ERN predicted greater irritability at age 12. This converges with previous work and provides novel insight into the specificity of pathways associated with psychopathology.
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- Courtney A Filippi
- Section on Development and Affective Neuroscience, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, MD20892, USA
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- Section on Development and Affective Neuroscience, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, MD20892, USA
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- Section on Development and Affective Neuroscience, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, MD20892, USA
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- Section on Development and Affective Neuroscience, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, MD20892, USA
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- Department of Human Development and Quantitative Methodology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD20742, USA
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- Division of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, New York State Psychiatric Institute, Columbia University, New York, NY10032, USA
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- Section on Development and Affective Neuroscience, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, MD20892, USA
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- Department of Human Development and Quantitative Methodology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD20742, USA
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- Section on Development and Affective Neuroscience, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, MD20892, USA
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- Section on Development and Affective Neuroscience, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, MD20892, USA
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Deveney CM, Grasso D, Hsu A, Pine DS, Estabrook CR, Zobel E, Burns JL, Wakschlag LS, Briggs-Gowan MJ. Multi-method assessment of irritability and differential linkages to neurophysiological indicators of attention allocation to emotional faces in young children. Dev Psychobiol 2020; 62:600-616. [PMID: 31631345 PMCID: PMC7328764 DOI: 10.1002/dev.21930] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/16/2019] [Revised: 08/25/2019] [Accepted: 09/09/2019] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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Facilitated attention toward angry stimuli (attention bias) may contribute to anger proneness and temper outbursts exhibited by children with high irritability. However, most studies linking attention bias and irritability rely on behavioral measures with limited precision and no studies have explored these associations in young children. The present study explores irritability-related attention biases toward anger in young children (N = 128; ages 4-7 years) engaged in a dot-probe task with emotional faces, as assessed with event-related brain potential (ERP) indices of early selective attention and multi-method assessment of irritability. Irritability assessed via semi-structured clinical interview predicted larger anterior N1 amplitudes to all faces. In contrast, irritability assessed via a laboratory observation paradigm predicted reduced P1 amplitudes to angry relative to neutral faces. These findings suggest that altered early attentional processing occurs in young children with high irritability; however, the nature of these patterns may vary with methodological features of the irritability assessments. Future investigations using different assessment tools may provide greater clarity regarding the underlying neurocognitive correlates of irritability. Such studies may also contribute to the ongoing debates about how to best define and measure irritability across the developmental spectrum in a manner that is most informative for linkage to neural processes.
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Connecticut School of Medicine, Farmington, CT, USA
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- Department of Psychology, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA, USA
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- Emotion and Development Branch, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Department of Medical Social Sciences, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA
- Institute for Innovations in Developmental Sciences, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Department of Medical Social Sciences, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Department of Medical Social Sciences, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Department of Medical Social Sciences, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA
- Institute for Innovations in Developmental Sciences, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA
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Whalen DJ, Gilbert KE, Kelly D, Hajcak G, Kappenman ES, Luby JL, Barch DM. Preschool-Onset Major Depressive Disorder is Characterized by Electrocortical Deficits in Processing Pleasant Emotional Pictures. JOURNAL OF ABNORMAL CHILD PSYCHOLOGY 2020; 48:91-108. [PMID: 31515716 PMCID: PMC7286427 DOI: 10.1007/s10802-019-00585-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Reductions in positive affect are a salient feature of preschool-onset major depressive disorder. Yet, little is known about the psychophysiological correlates of this blunted positive affect and whether reduced physiological responding to pleasant stimuli may differentiate depressed and healthy young children. 120 four-to-seven year old children with current depression and 63 psychiatrically healthy 4-to-7 year old children completed a simple picture-viewing task of pleasant and neutral pictures while event-related potentials (ERPs) were recorded. The early-childhood version of the Kiddie Schedule for Affective Disorders and Depression was used to establish psychiatric diagnoses. A one-way ANCOVA was used to test for group differences in response to pleasant and neutral pictures. Young children with depression showed a reduced response to pleasant vs. neutral pictures (LPP), after controlling for children's age (F(1,180) = 4.15, p = 0.04, η2 = 0.02). The LPP for the children with preschool-onset depression (M = 0.99, SE = 0.65) was significantly smaller than the LPP in the healthy group of young children (M = 3.27, SE = 0.90). This difference did not vary as a function of depression or anhedonia severity within the group with depression or the healthy children. Similar to older children and adolescents with depression, young children with depression display reductions in responsivity to pleasant stimuli as indexed by the LPP. These findings extend prior findings indicating a blunted response to pleasant stimuli in preschool- onset depression. Given the greater neuroplasticity of emotional response and regulation, these findings suggest clinical attention to emotional response to pleasure is an important target in preschool-onset depression. Clinical trial registration information: A Randomized Control Trial of PCIT-ED for Preschool Depression; http://clinicaltrials.gov/;NCT02076425.
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- Diana J Whalen
- Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, 4444 Forest Park, Suite 2100, St. Louis, MO, 63108, USA.
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- Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, 4444 Forest Park, Suite 2100, St. Louis, MO, 63108, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, 4444 Forest Park, Suite 2100, St. Louis, MO, 63108, USA
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- Department of Psychology, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, USA
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- Department of Psychology, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, 4444 Forest Park, Suite 2100, St. Louis, MO, 63108, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, 4444 Forest Park, Suite 2100, St. Louis, MO, 63108, USA
- The Program in Neuroscience, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, USA
- Department of Psychology, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, USA
- Department of Radiology, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, USA
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Smith JD, Wakschlag L, Krogh-Jespersen S, Walkup JT, Wilson MN, Dishion TJ, Shaw DS. Dysregulated Irritability as a Window on Young Children's Psychiatric Risk: Transdiagnostic Effects via the Family Check-Up. Dev Psychopathol 2019; 31:1887-1899. [PMID: 31370913 PMCID: PMC7279524 DOI: 10.1017/s0954579419000816] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Building on prior work using Tom Dishion's Family Check-Up, the current article examined intervention effects on dysregulated irritability in early childhood. Dysregulated irritability, defined as reactive and intense response to frustration, and prolonged angry mood, is an ideal marker of neurodevelopmental vulnerability to later psychopathology because it is a transdiagnostic indicator of decrements in self-regulation that are measurable in the first years of life that have lifelong implications for health and disease. This study is perhaps the first randomized trial to examine the direct effects of an evidence- and family-based intervention, the Family Check-Up (FCU), on irritability in early childhood and the effects of reductions in irritability on later risk of child internalizing and externalizing symptomatology. Data from the geographically and sociodemographically diverse multisite Early Steps randomized prevention trial were used. Path modeling revealed intervention effects on irritability at age 4, which predicted lower externalizing and internalizing symptoms at age 10.5. Results indicate that family-based programs initiated in early childhood can reduce early childhood irritability and later risk for psychopathology. This holds promise for earlier identification and prevention approaches that target transdiagnostic pathways. Implications for future basic and prevention research are discussed.
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- Justin D Smith
- Center for Prevention Implementation Methodology for Drug Abuse and HIV, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Feinberg School of Medicine & Institute for Innovations in Developmental Sciences, Northwestern University
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- Department of Medical Social Sciences, Feinberg School of Medicine & Institute for Innovations in Developmental Sciences, Northwestern University
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- Department of Medical Social Sciences, Feinberg School of Medicine & Institute for Innovations in Developmental Sciences, Northwestern University
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Division of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, Feinberg School of Medicine, Institute for Innovations in Developmental Sciences, Northwestern University, & Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital
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- REACH Institute, Department of Psychology, Arizona State University & Oregon Research Institute
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Vogel AC, Jackson JJ, Barch DM, Tillman R, Luby JL. Excitability and irritability in preschoolers predicts later psychopathology: The importance of positive and negative emotion dysregulation. Dev Psychopathol 2019; 31:1067-1083. [PMID: 31109387 PMCID: PMC7059859 DOI: 10.1017/s0954579419000609] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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Emotion dysregulation is a risk factor for the development of a variety of psychopathologic outcomes. In children, irritability, or dysregulated negative affect, has been the primary focus, as it predicts later negative outcomes even in very young children. However, dysregulation of positive emotion is increasingly recognized as a contributor to psychopathology. Here we used an exploratory factor analysis and defined four factors of emotion dysregulation: irritability, excitability, sadness, and anhedonia, in the preschool-age psychiatric assessment collected in a sample of 302 children ages 3-5 years enriched for early onset depression. The irritability and excitability factor scores defined in preschoolers predicted later diagnosis of mood and externalizing disorders when controlling for other factor scores, social adversity, maternal history of mood disorders, and externalizing diagnoses at baseline. The preschool excitability factor score predicted emotion lability in late childhood and early adolescence when controlling for other factor scores, social adversity, and maternal history. Both excitability and irritability factor scores in preschoolers predicted global functioning into the teen years and early adolescence, respectively. These findings underscore the importance of positive, as well as negative, affect dysregulation as early as the preschool years in predicting later psychopathology, which deserves both further study and clinical consideration.
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- Alecia C. Vogel
- Department of Psychiatry, Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine
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- Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Washington University in St. Louis
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- Department of Psychiatry, Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine
- Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Washington University in St. Louis
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- Department of Psychiatry, Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine
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- Department of Psychiatry, Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine
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Deveney CM. Reward processing and irritability in young adults. Biol Psychol 2019; 143:1-9. [DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2019.02.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/02/2018] [Revised: 02/07/2019] [Accepted: 02/08/2019] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Deveney CM, Briggs-Gowan MJ, Pagliaccio D, Estabrook CR, Zobel E, Burns JL, Norton ES, Pine DS, Brotman MA, Leibenluft E, Wakschlag LS. Temporally sensitive neural measures of inhibition in preschool children across a spectrum of irritability. Dev Psychobiol 2019; 61:216-227. [PMID: 30328111 PMCID: PMC7147937 DOI: 10.1002/dev.21792] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/19/2018] [Revised: 09/13/2018] [Accepted: 09/14/2018] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
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Irritability is a prominent feature of chronic mental disorders and a developmental marker of their early emergence. The most salient feature of irritability in early childhood is temper tantrums. While temper tantrums are normative in young children, they can be clinically concerning when they are dysregulated, very frequent, and/or occur in unexpected contexts. The present study uses behavioral and event-related brain potential (ERP) measures to characterize the relationship between irritability and neural markers of response inhibition in very young children. Forty-six children (ages 4-7 years) completed a go/no-go task under nonfrustrating and frustrating conditions. ERPs elicited by go and no-go stimuli were examined as a function of frustration condition and irritability, operationalized via the well-validated Temper Loss scale of the Multidimensional Assessment Profile of Disruptive Behavior (MAP-DB). Higher Temper Loss scores were associated with larger N2no-go amplitudes and reduced no-go accuracy during frustration. This suggests that higher levels of irritability corresponded with increased conflict monitoring and poorer task performance during frustration. These findings add to a developing literature identifying the neurocognitive markers of varying levels of irritability in young children.
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- Emotion and Development Branch, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, Maryland
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- Department of Medical Social Sciences, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois
- Institute for Innovations in Developmental Sciences, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois
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- Department of Medical Social Sciences, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois
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- Department of Medical Social Sciences, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois
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- Institute for Innovations in Developmental Sciences, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois
- School of Communication, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois
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- Emotion and Development Branch, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, Maryland
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- Emotion and Development Branch, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, Maryland
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- Emotion and Development Branch, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, Maryland
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- Department of Medical Social Sciences, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois
- Institute for Innovations in Developmental Sciences, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois
- Institute for Policy Research, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois
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Kessel EM, Kujawa A, Dougherty LR, Hajcak G, Carlson GA, Klein DN. Neurophysiological Processing of Emotion in Children of Mothers with a History of Depression: the Moderating Role of Preschool Persistent Irritability. JOURNAL OF ABNORMAL CHILD PSYCHOLOGY 2018; 45:1599-1608. [PMID: 28138807 DOI: 10.1007/s10802-017-0272-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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Research on emotion-processing biases in offspring of depressed parents has produced a variety of findings. Child persistent irritability may be a useful clinical feature that demarcates subgroups of offspring with distinct patterns of emotion processing. The present study examined whether early persistent irritability moderated the relationship between maternal lifetime history of a depressive disorder and appetitive- and aversive-emotion processing in 338 never-depressed pre-adolescent children (43.8% female). When children were 3, mothers were interviewed about children's persistent irritability. Six years later, EEG was recorded while children completed a task in which the late positive potential (LPP), a neural index of emotional reactivity, was measured in response to appetitive, aversive, and neutral images. At both assessments, mothers were interviewed about their own psychopathology. Among offspring of depressed mothers, children characterized by high levels of early persistent irritability showed an enhanced LPP to appetitive and aversive compared to neutral images (i.e., ΔLPP), whereas children with low levels of early irritability showed attenuated ΔLPPs. In offspring of mothers with no history of depression, there was no association between irritability and emotion processing. Findings suggest that persistent irritability influences the pattern of emotion-processing aberrations in offspring of depressed mothers.
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- Ellen M Kessel
- Department of Psychology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, 11794-2500, USA.
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- Department of Psychology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, 11794-2500, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Maryland-College Park, College Park, USA
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- Department of Psychology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, 11794-2500, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Stony Brook University School of Medicine, New York, USA
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- Department of Psychology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, 11794-2500, USA.,Department of Psychiatry, Stony Brook University School of Medicine, New York, USA
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Wiggins JL, Briggs-Gowan MJ, Estabrook R, Brotman MA, Pine DS, Leibenluft E, Wakschlag LS. Identifying Clinically Significant Irritability in Early Childhood. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 2018; 57:191-199.e2. [PMID: 29496128 PMCID: PMC5860673 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaac.2017.12.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 63] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/16/2017] [Revised: 12/05/2017] [Accepted: 12/22/2017] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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OBJECTIVE Advances in developmentally sensitive measurement have enabled differentiation of normative versus clinically salient irritability in early childhood. However, clinical application of these measures is still nascent. The authors developed an optimized model of clinically salient irritable behaviors at preschool age. Based on this model, the authors derived an empirically based cutoff in relation to concurrent DSM-5 irritability-related disorders (i.e., oppositional defiant disorder, disruptive mood dysregulation disorder, other depressive disorders) and used longitudinal models to test the predictive validity of the cutoff for impairment and irritability trajectories and later DSM disorders. METHOD Preschool children oversampled for irritability were followed over 3 time points into early school age (N = 425; mean age at baseline 4.7 years, mean follow-up 2.9 years). Mothers reported on children's irritability using the developmentally validated Multidimensional Assessment of Profile of Disruptive Behavior (MAP-DB) Temper Loss scale, impairment using the Family Life Impairment Scale, and DSM categories using the Preschool Age Psychiatric Assessment and the Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia-Present and Lifetime Version. RESULTS Of 22 MAP-DB Temper Loss behaviors, 2 behaviors-1 normative (easily frustrated) and 1 rare dysregulated (destructive tantrums)-were uniquely related to cross-domain impairment. At baseline, these 2 irritability items identified diagnostic status (oppositional defiant disorder, disruptive mood dysregulation disorder, other depressive disorders) with good sensitivity (70-73%) and specificity (74-83%). Children above the irritability cutoff at baseline also exhibited more persistent irritability and impairment and greater likelihood of DSM disorders in early school age. CONCLUSION Clinical identification of early-onset irritability can be enhanced using brief, developmentally optimized indicators. Further research to apply these findings to tiered early intervention is important.
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- Jillian Lee Wiggins
- San Diego State University and the San Diego State University/University of California-San Diego Joint Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology.
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- Feinberg School of Medicine and Institute for Innovations in Developmental Sciences, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
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- Emotion and Development Branch, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, Rockville, MD
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- Emotion and Development Branch, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, Rockville, MD
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- Emotion and Development Branch, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, Rockville, MD
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- Feinberg School of Medicine and Institute for Innovations in Developmental Sciences, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL. Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern
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Wakschlag LS, Perlman SB, Blair RJ, Leibenluft E, Briggs-Gowan MJ, Pine DS. The Neurodevelopmental Basis of Early Childhood Disruptive Behavior: Irritable and Callous Phenotypes as Exemplars. Am J Psychiatry 2018; 175:114-130. [PMID: 29145753 PMCID: PMC6075952 DOI: 10.1176/appi.ajp.2017.17010045] [Citation(s) in RCA: 119] [Impact Index Per Article: 19.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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The arrival of the Journal's 175th anniversary occurs at a time of recent advances in research, providing an ideal opportunity to present a neurodevelopmental roadmap for understanding, preventing, and treating psychiatric disorders. Such a roadmap is particularly relevant for early-childhood-onset neurodevelopmental conditions, which emerge when experience-dependent neuroplasticity is at its peak. Employing a novel developmental specification approach, this review places recent neurodevelopmental research on early childhood disruptive behavior within the historical context of the Journal. The authors highlight irritability and callous behavior as two core exemplars of early disruptive behavior. Both phenotypes can be reliably differentiated from normative variation as early as the first years of life. Both link to discrete pathophysiology: irritability with disruptions in prefrontal regulation of emotion, and callous behavior with abnormal fear processing. Each phenotype also possesses clinical and predictive utility. Based on a nomologic net of evidence, the authors conclude that early disruptive behavior is neurodevelopmental in nature and should be reclassified as an early-childhood-onset neurodevelopmental condition in DSM-5. Rapid translation from neurodevelopmental discovery to clinical application has transformative potential for psychiatric approaches of the millennium. [AJP at 175: Remembering Our Past As We Envision Our Future November 1938: Electroencephalographic Analyses of Behavior Problem Children Herbert Jasper and colleagues found that brain abnormalities revealed by EEG are a potential causal factor in childhood behavioral disorders. (Am J Psychiatry 1938; 95:641-658 )].
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- Lauren S Wakschlag
- From the Department of Medical Social Sciences, Institute for Innovations in Developmental Sciences, and the Institute for Policy Research, Northwestern University, Chicago; the Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh; the Center for Neurobehavioral Research, Boys Town National Research Hospital, Boys Town, Nebr.; the Department of Psychiatry, University of Connecticut, Farmington, Conn.; and the National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, Md
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- From the Department of Medical Social Sciences, Institute for Innovations in Developmental Sciences, and the Institute for Policy Research, Northwestern University, Chicago; the Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh; the Center for Neurobehavioral Research, Boys Town National Research Hospital, Boys Town, Nebr.; the Department of Psychiatry, University of Connecticut, Farmington, Conn.; and the National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, Md
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- From the Department of Medical Social Sciences, Institute for Innovations in Developmental Sciences, and the Institute for Policy Research, Northwestern University, Chicago; the Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh; the Center for Neurobehavioral Research, Boys Town National Research Hospital, Boys Town, Nebr.; the Department of Psychiatry, University of Connecticut, Farmington, Conn.; and the National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, Md
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- From the Department of Medical Social Sciences, Institute for Innovations in Developmental Sciences, and the Institute for Policy Research, Northwestern University, Chicago; the Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh; the Center for Neurobehavioral Research, Boys Town National Research Hospital, Boys Town, Nebr.; the Department of Psychiatry, University of Connecticut, Farmington, Conn.; and the National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, Md
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- From the Department of Medical Social Sciences, Institute for Innovations in Developmental Sciences, and the Institute for Policy Research, Northwestern University, Chicago; the Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh; the Center for Neurobehavioral Research, Boys Town National Research Hospital, Boys Town, Nebr.; the Department of Psychiatry, University of Connecticut, Farmington, Conn.; and the National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, Md
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- From the Department of Medical Social Sciences, Institute for Innovations in Developmental Sciences, and the Institute for Policy Research, Northwestern University, Chicago; the Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh; the Center for Neurobehavioral Research, Boys Town National Research Hospital, Boys Town, Nebr.; the Department of Psychiatry, University of Connecticut, Farmington, Conn.; and the National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, Md
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Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD): An RDoC perspective. J Affect Disord 2017; 216:117-122. [PMID: 27554606 PMCID: PMC5305694 DOI: 10.1016/j.jad.2016.08.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/16/2016] [Accepted: 08/11/2016] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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In recent years, there has been much debate regarding the most appropriate diagnostic classification of children exhibiting emotion dysregulation in the form of irritability and severe temper outbursts. Most recently, this has resulted in the addition of a new diagnosis, Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD) in the DSM 5. The impetus for including this new disorder was to reduce the number of diagnoses that these children would typically receive; however, there is concern that it has only complicated matters rather than simplifying them. For example, a recent epidemiologic study shows that DMDD cannot be differentiated from oppositional defiant disorder (ODD) based on symptoms alone. Thus, these children are an ideal population in which to apply RDoC constructs in order to obtain greater clarity in terms of underlying processes and ultimately, inform nosology and appropriate interventions. The aim of this article is to provide a foundation for future research by examining extant theoretical and empirical evidence for the role of four key RDoC constructs in DMDD.
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Temper Loss and Persistent Irritability in Preschoolers: Implications for Diagnosing Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder in Early Childhood. Child Psychiatry Hum Dev 2017; 48:498-508. [PMID: 27510439 DOI: 10.1007/s10578-016-0676-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD) is a new and controversial child psychiatric disorder characterized by persistent irritability and frequent temper loss. Among the controversies surrounding DMDD is whether the age of onset criterion-that DMDD may not be diagnosed before age 6 years-is justified. This study examined DMDD symptoms and associated patterns of psychiatric comorbidity, behavioral, and family functioning in a sample of 139 preschoolers (ages 4-0 to 5-11 years) admitted to an early childhood psychiatric day treatment program. DMDD symptoms were common in this acute clinical sample, with 63 children (45.3 %) presenting with frequent temper outbursts and chronic irritability. As compared to children who did not present with DMDD symptoms, these children demonstrated more aggression and emotional reactivity and lower receptive language skills, with high rates of comorbidity with the disruptive behavior disorders. Findings contribute to an emerging literature on preschool DMDD, with implications for early childhood psychiatric assessment and clinical interventions.
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- Melissa A. Brotman
- Emotion and Development Branch, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892;, ,
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- Emotion and Development Branch, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892;, ,
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- Emotion and Development Branch, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892;, ,
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Irritability in child and adolescent psychopathology: An integrative review for ICD-11. Clin Psychol Rev 2017; 53:29-45. [PMID: 28192774 DOI: 10.1016/j.cpr.2017.01.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 105] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/02/2016] [Revised: 01/02/2017] [Accepted: 01/16/2017] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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In preparation for the World Health Organization's development of the Eleventh Revision of the International Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD-11) chapter on Mental and Behavioral Disorders, this article reviews the literature pertaining to severe irritability in child and adolescent psychopathology. First, research on severe mood dysregulation suggests that youth with irritability and temper outbursts, among other features of hyperactivity and arousal, demonstrate cross-sectional correlates and developmental outcomes that distinguish them from youth with bipolar disorder. Second, other evidence points to an irritable dimension of Oppositional Defiant Disorder symptomatology, which is uniquely associated with concurrent and subsequent internalizing problems. In contrast to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders' (5th ed.) Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder, our review of the literature supports a different solution: a subtype, Oppositional Defiant Disorder with chronic irritability/anger (proposal included in Appendix). This solution is more consistent with the available evidence and is a better fit with global public health considerations such as harm/benefit potential, clinical utility, and cross-cultural applicability. Implications for assessment, treatment, and research are discussed.
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Levinson AR, Speed BC, Infantolino ZP, Hajcak G. Reliability of the electrocortical response to gains and losses in the doors task. Psychophysiology 2017; 54:601-607. [PMID: 28072462 DOI: 10.1111/psyp.12813] [Citation(s) in RCA: 90] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/07/2016] [Accepted: 11/21/2016] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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The ability to differentiate between rewards and losses is critical for motivated action, and aberrant reward and loss processing has been associated with psychopathology. The reward positivity (RewP) and feedback negativity (FN) are ERPs elicited by monetary gains and losses, respectively, and are promising individual difference measures. However, few studies have reported on the psychometric properties of the RewP and FN-crucial characteristics necessary for valid individual difference measures. The current study examined the internal consistency and 1-week test-retest reliability of the RewP and FN as elicited by the doors task among 59 young adults. The RewP, FN, and their difference score (ΔRewP) all showed significant correlations between Time 1 and Time 2. The RewP and FN also achieved acceptable internal consistency at both time points within 20 trials using both Cronbach's α and a generalizability theory-derived dependability measure. Internal consistency for ΔRewP was notably weaker at both time points, which is expected from two highly intercorrelated constituent scores. In conclusion, the RewP and FN have strong psychometric properties in a healthy adult sample. Future research is needed to assess the psychometric properties of these ERPs in different age cohorts and in clinical populations.
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- Amanda R Levinson
- Department of Psychology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, USA
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- Department of Psychology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, USA
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- Department of Psychology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, USA
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Zhu X, Wang L, Yang S, Gu R, Wu H, Luo Y. The Motivational Hierarchy between the Personal Self and Close Others in the Chinese Brain: an ERP Study. Front Psychol 2016; 7:1467. [PMID: 27729888 PMCID: PMC5037196 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01467] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/19/2016] [Accepted: 09/12/2016] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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People base their decisions not only on their own self-interest but also on the interests of close others. Generally, the personal self has primacy in the motivational hierarchy in the Western culture. A recent study found that friends have the same motivational hierarchy as the personal self in the Eastern collectivist culture. Remaining unknown is whether the motivational hierarchy of the personal self and close others can be manifested in the collectivist brain. In the present study, we asked participants to gamble for the personal self, close others (i.e., mother, father, and close friend), and strangers. The positive-going deflection of event-related potentials (ERPs) in response to positive feedback showed the following pattern: personal self = mother = father > friend > stranger. In the loss condition, no significant beneficiary effect was observed. The present results indicate that the personal self and parents are intertwined in the motivational system in the Chinese undergraduate student brain, supporting the view that the personal self and parents have the same motivational primacy at the electrocortical level.
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- Xiangru Zhu
- Institute of Psychology and Behavior, Henan University, Kaifeng China
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- School of Educational Science, Huaiyin Normal University, Huaian China
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- Department of Psychology, Shanghai University of Sport, Shanghai China
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- Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing China
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- Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing China
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- Institute of Affective and Social Neuroscience, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen China
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Carlson GA. Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder: Where Did It Come from and Where Is It Going. J Child Adolesc Psychopharmacol 2016; 26:90-3. [PMID: 27007451 DOI: 10.1089/cap.2016.29102.gca] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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- Gabrielle A Carlson
- Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Stony Brook University School of Medicine , Stony Brook, New York
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Baweja R, Mayes SD, Hameed U, Waxmonsky JG. Disruptive mood dysregulation disorder: current insights. Neuropsychiatr Dis Treat 2016; 12:2115-24. [PMID: 27601906 PMCID: PMC5003560 DOI: 10.2147/ndt.s100312] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023] Open
Abstract
Disruptive mood dysregulation disorder (DMDD) was introduced as a new diagnostic entity under the category of depressive disorders in Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-5). It was included in DSM-5 primarily to address concerns about the misdiagnosis and consequent overtreatment of bipolar disorder in children and adolescents. DMDD does provide a home for a large percentage of referred children with severe persistent irritability that did not fit well into any DSM, Fourth Edition (DSM-IV) diagnostic category. However, it has been a controversial addition to the DSM-5 due to lack of published validity studies, leading to questions about its validity as a distinct disorder. In this article, the authors discuss the diagnostic criteria, assessment, epidemiology, criticism of the diagnosis, and pathophysiology, as well as treatment and future directions for DMDD. They also review the literature on severe mood dysregulation, as described by the National Institute of Mental Health, as the scientific support for DMDD is based primarily on studies of severe mood dysregulation.
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- Raman Baweja
- Department of Psychiatry, Penn State University College of Medicine, Hershey, PA, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Penn State University College of Medicine, Hershey, PA, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Penn State University College of Medicine, Hershey, PA, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Penn State University College of Medicine, Hershey, PA, USA
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