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Karl V, Engen H, Beck D, Norbom LB, Ferschmann L, Aksnes ER, Kjelkenes R, Voldsbekk I, Andreassen OA, Alnæs D, Ladouceur CD, Westlye LT, Tamnes CK. The role of functional emotion circuits in distinct dimensions of psychopathology in youth. Transl Psychiatry 2024; 14:317. [PMID: 39095355 PMCID: PMC11297301 DOI: 10.1038/s41398-024-03036-1] [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: 09/13/2023] [Revised: 07/17/2024] [Accepted: 07/23/2024] [Indexed: 08/04/2024] Open
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Several mental disorders emerge during childhood or adolescence and are often characterized by socioemotional difficulties, including alterations in emotion perception. Emotional facial expressions are processed in discrete functional brain modules whose connectivity patterns encode emotion categories, but the involvement of these neural circuits in psychopathology in youth is poorly understood. This study examined the associations between activation and functional connectivity patterns in emotion circuits and psychopathology during development. We used task-based fMRI data from the Philadelphia Neurodevelopmental Cohort (PNC, N = 1221, 8-23 years) and conducted generalized psycho-physiological interaction (gPPI) analyses. Measures of psychopathology were derived from an independent component analysis of questionnaire data. The results showed positive associations between identifying fearful, sad, and angry faces and depressive symptoms, and a negative relationship between sadness recognition and positive psychosis symptoms. We found a positive main effect of depressive symptoms on BOLD activation in regions overlapping with the default mode network, while individuals reporting higher levels of norm-violating behavior exhibited emotion-specific lower functional connectivity within regions of the salience network and between modules that overlapped with the salience and default mode network. Our findings illustrate the relevance of functional connectivity patterns underlying emotion processing for behavioral problems in children and adolescents.
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- Valerie Karl
- NORMENT, Division of Mental Health and Addiction, Oslo University Hospital & Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.
- PROMENTA Research Center, Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.
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- NORMENT, Division of Mental Health and Addiction, Oslo University Hospital & Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
- Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
- Institute of Military Psychiatry Norwegian Armed Forces Joint Medical Services, Oslo, Norway
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- PROMENTA Research Center, Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
- Division of Mental Health and Substance Abuse, Diakonhjemmet Hospital, Oslo, Norway
- NORMENT, Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- NORMENT, Division of Mental Health and Addiction, Oslo University Hospital & Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
- PROMENTA Research Center, Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- PROMENTA Research Center, Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- PROMENTA Research Center, Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
- Division of Mental Health and Substance Abuse, Diakonhjemmet Hospital, Oslo, Norway
- NORMENT, Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- NORMENT, Division of Mental Health and Addiction, Oslo University Hospital & Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
- Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- NORMENT, Division of Mental Health and Addiction, Oslo University Hospital & Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
- Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- NORMENT, Division of Mental Health and Addiction, Oslo University Hospital & Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
- KG Jebsen Centre for Neurodevelopmental Disorders, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- NORMENT, Division of Mental Health and Addiction, Oslo University Hospital & Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
- Department of Psychology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- NORMENT, Division of Mental Health and Addiction, Oslo University Hospital & Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
- Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
- KG Jebsen Centre for Neurodevelopmental Disorders, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- PROMENTA Research Center, Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
- Division of Mental Health and Substance Abuse, Diakonhjemmet Hospital, Oslo, Norway
- NORMENT, Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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Davies PT, Colton KC, Schmitz C, Gibb BE. Interparental conflict dimensions and children's psychological problems: Emotion recognition as a mediator. Child Dev 2024; 95:1333-1350. [PMID: 38289120 DOI: 10.1111/cdev.14067] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 07/05/2024]
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This study tested children's emotion recognition as a mediator of associations between their exposure to hostile and cooperative interparental conflict and their internalizing and externalizing symptoms. From 2018 to 2022, 238 mothers, their partners, and preschool children (Mage = 4.38, 52% female; 68% White; 18% Black; 14% Multiracial or another race; and 16% Latinx) participated in three annual measurement occasions. Path analyses indicated that Wave 1 observations of hostile interparental conflict predicted residualized increases in children's emotion recognition accuracy (i.e., angry, sad, and happy) at Wave 2 (β = .27). Wave 2 emotion recognition, in turn, predicted residualized decreases in children's internalizing symptoms at Wave 3 (β = -.22). Mediational findings were partly attributable to children's accuracy in identifying angry and high-intensity expressions.
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- Patrick T Davies
- Department of Psychology, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, USA
- Mt. Hope Family Center, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, USA
- Mt. Hope Family Center, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, USA
- Mt. Hope Family Center, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, USA
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- Department of Psychology, Binghamton University, Rochester, New York, USA
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Werkmann NL, Luczejko AA, Hagelweide K, Stark R, Weigelt S, Christiansen H, Kieser M, Otto K, Reck C, Steinmayr R, Wirthwein L, Zietlow AL, Schwenck C. Facial emotion recognition in children of parents with a mental illness. Front Psychiatry 2024; 15:1366005. [PMID: 38938463 PMCID: PMC11210522 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2024.1366005] [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: 01/05/2024] [Accepted: 05/23/2024] [Indexed: 06/29/2024] Open
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Objective Facial emotion recognition (FER) is a fundamental social skill essential for adaptive social behaviors, emotional development, and overall well-being. FER impairments have been linked to various mental disorders, making it a critical transdiagnostic mechanism influencing the development and trajectory of mental disorders. FER has also been found to play a role in the transgenerational transmission of mental disorders, with the majority of research suggesting FER impairments in children of parents with a mental illness (COPMI). Previous research primarily concentrated on COPMI of parents with internalizing disorders, which does not cover the full spectrum of outpatient mental health service populations. Furthermore, research focuses on varying components of FER by using different assessment paradigms, making it challenging to compare study results. To address these gaps, we comprehensively investigated FER abilities in COPMI using multiple tasks varying in task characteristics. Methods We included 189 children, 77 COPMI and 112 children of parents without a diagnosed mental illness (COPWMI), aged 6 to 16 years. We assessed FER using three tasks with varying task demands: an emotional Go/NoGo task, a morphing task, and a task presenting short video sequences depicting different emotions. We fitted separate two-level hierarchical Bayesian models (to account for sibling pairs in our sample) for reaction times and accuracy rates for each task. Good model fit was assured by comparing models using varying priors. Results Contrary to our expectations, our results revealed no general FER deficit in COPMI compared to COPWMI. The Bayesian models fitted for accuracy in the morphing task and Go/NoGo task yielded small yet significant effects. However, Bayes factors fitted for the models suggested that these effects could be due to random variations or noise in the data. Conclusions Our study does not support FER impairments as a general feature of COPMI. Instead, individual factors, such as the type of parental disorder and the timing of its onset, may play a crucial role in influencing FER development. Future research should consider these factors, taking into account the diverse landscape of parental mental disorders.
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- Naomi Leona Werkmann
- Department of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Giessen, Germany
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- Department of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Giessen, Germany
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- Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, Technical University Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany
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- Department of Psychotherapy and Systems Neuroscience, Justus-Liebig University Giessen, Giessen, Germany
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- Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, Technical University Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany
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- Department of Psychology, Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, Philipps University Marburg, Marburg, Germany
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- Institute of Medical Biometry, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Department of Work and Organizational Psychology, Philipps-University Marburg, Marburg, Germany
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- Department of Psychology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich, Germany
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- Department of Psychology, Technical University Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany
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- Department of Psychology, Technical University Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany
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- Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, Department of Psychology, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany
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- Department of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Giessen, Germany
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Sells RC, Liversedge SP, Chronaki G. Vocal emotion recognition in attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder: a meta-analysis. Cogn Emot 2024; 38:23-43. [PMID: 37715528 DOI: 10.1080/02699931.2023.2258590] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/10/2023] [Revised: 06/06/2023] [Accepted: 06/28/2023] [Indexed: 09/17/2023]
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There is debate within the literature as to whether emotion dysregulation (ED) in Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) reflects deviant attentional mechanisms or atypical perceptual emotion processing. Previous reviews have reliably examined the nature of facial, but not vocal, emotion recognition accuracy in ADHD. The present meta-analysis quantified vocal emotion recognition (VER) accuracy scores in ADHD and controls using robust variance estimation, gathered from 21 published and unpublished papers. Additional moderator analyses were carried out to determine whether the nature of VER accuracy in ADHD varied depending on emotion type. Findings revealed a medium effect size for the presence of VER deficits in ADHD, and moderator analyses showed VER accuracy in ADHD did not differ due to emotion type. These results support the theories which implicate the role of attentional mechanisms in driving VER deficits in ADHD. However, there is insufficient data within the behavioural VER literature to support the presence of emotion processing atypicalities in ADHD. Future neuro-imaging research could explore the interaction between attention and emotion processing in ADHD, taking into consideration ADHD subtypes and comorbidities.
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- Rohanna C Sells
- School of Psychology and Computer Science, University of Central Lancashire, UK
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- School of Psychology and Computer Science, University of Central Lancashire, UK
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- School of Psychology and Computer Science, University of Central Lancashire, UK
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Levantini V, Muratori P, Bertacchi I, Grilli V, Marzano A, Masi G, Milone A, Kimonis ER. The "Measure of Empathy in Early Childhood": Psychometric Properties and Associations with Externalizing Problems and Callous Unemotional Traits. Child Psychiatry Hum Dev 2024:10.1007/s10578-024-01673-7. [PMID: 38261151 DOI: 10.1007/s10578-024-01673-7] [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] [Accepted: 01/14/2024] [Indexed: 01/24/2024]
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Empathy is crucial to the development of socio-emotional skills in youth and empathy development is central to understanding and subtyping youth with externalizing problems. This study explored for the first time the psychometric properties of the Measure of Empathy in Early Childhood (MEEC) in a sample of 652 Italian children aged 6 to 8 years. The gender invariance of MEEC scores and their associations with other measures of empathy and prosocial behavior, and children's externalizing problems and callous-unemotional (CU) traits were also evaluated. Results indicated that with some modifications, a 5-factor structure of the Italian version of MEEC scores fitted the data and was invariant across gender. Results further supported the reliability and validity of MEEC total and subscale scores. Practical implications of these results are discussed.
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- Valentina Levantini
- Scientific Institute of Child Neurology and Psychiatry, IRCCS Stella Maris, Pisa, Italy
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- Scientific Institute of Child Neurology and Psychiatry, IRCCS Stella Maris, Pisa, Italy.
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- Accademia di Neuropsicologia dello Sviluppo (A.N.Svi), Reggio Emilia, Italy
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- Scientific Institute of Child Neurology and Psychiatry, IRCCS Stella Maris, Pisa, Italy
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- Scientific Institute of Child Neurology and Psychiatry, IRCCS Stella Maris, Pisa, Italy
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- Scientific Institute of Child Neurology and Psychiatry, IRCCS Stella Maris, Pisa, Italy
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- Parent-Child Research Clinic, School of Psychology, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
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Löytömäki J, Laakso ML, Huttunen K. Social-Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties in Children with Neurodevelopmental Disorders: Emotion Perception in Daily Life and in a Formal Assessment Context. J Autism Dev Disord 2023; 53:4744-4758. [PMID: 36184695 PMCID: PMC10627915 DOI: 10.1007/s10803-022-05768-9] [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: 09/13/2022] [Indexed: 10/10/2022]
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Children with neurodevelopmental disorders often have social-emotional and behavioural difficulties. The present study explored these difficulties in children (n = 50, aged 6-10 years) with autism spectrum disorder, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and developmental language disorder. Parents, teachers and therapists evaluated children's social-emotional and behavioural difficulties through a self-devised questionnaire and the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire. Additionally, the children, along with their typically developing age peers (n = 106), completed six emotion discrimination tasks. Analysis revealed some impaired emotion discrimination skills that were predictive for behavioural challenges in daily life and associated with the parent-reported existence of friends. Timely intervention in these children is needed, and it should also include emotion perception training.
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- Joanna Löytömäki
- Faculty of Humanities/Research Unit of Logopedics, University of Oulu, P.O. Box 1000, 90014, Oulun yliopisto, Finland.
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- Department of Education, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland PL 35, 40014, Jyvaskylan yliopisto, Finland
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- Faculty of Humanities/Research Unit of Logopedics, University of Oulu, P.O. Box 1000, 90014, Oulun yliopisto, Finland
- Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Oulu University Hospital, Oulu, Finland
- Medical Research Center Oulu, Oulu, Finland
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Wagner N, Perkins E, Rodriguez Y, Ordway C, Flum M, Hernandez-Pena L, Perelstein P, Sem K, Paz Y, Plate R, Popoola A, Lynch S, Astone K, Goldstein E, Njoroge WFM, Raine A, Pincus D, Pérez-Edgar K, Waller R. Promoting Empathy and Affiliation in Relationships (PEAR) study: protocol for a longitudinal study investigating the development of early childhood callous-unemotional traits. BMJ Open 2023; 13:e072742. [PMID: 37802613 PMCID: PMC10565261 DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2023-072742] [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: 02/13/2023] [Accepted: 09/15/2023] [Indexed: 10/10/2023] Open
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INTRODUCTION Children with callous-unemotional (CU) traits are at high lifetime risk of antisocial behaviour. Low affiliation (ie, social bonding difficulties) and fearlessness (ie, low threat sensitivity) are proposed risk factors for CU traits. Parenting practices (eg, harshness and low warmth) also predict risk for CU traits. However, few studies in early childhood have identified attentional or physiological markers of low affiliation and fearlessness. Moreover, no studies have tested whether parenting practices are underpinned by low affiliation or fearlessness shared by parents, which could further shape parent-child interactions and exacerbate risk for CU traits. Addressing these questions will inform knowledge of how CU traits develop and isolate novel parent and child targets for future specialised treatments for CU traits. METHODS AND ANALYSIS The Promoting Empathy and Affiliation in Relationships (PEAR) study aims to establish risk factors for CU traits in children aged 3-6 years. The PEAR study will recruit 500 parent-child dyads from two metropolitan areas of the USA. Parents and children will complete questionnaires, computer tasks and observational assessments, alongside collection of eye-tracking and physiological data, when children are aged 3-4 (time 1) and 5-6 (time 2) years. The moderating roles of child sex, race and ethnicity, family and neighbourhood disadvantage, and parental psychopathology will also be assessed. Study aims will be addressed using structural equation modelling, which will allow for flexible characterisation of low affiliation, fearlessness and parenting practices as risk factors for CU traits across multiple domains. ETHICS AND DISSEMINATION Ethical approval was granted by Boston University (#6158E) and the University of Pennsylvania (#850638). Results will be disseminated through conferences and open-access publications. All study and task materials will be made freely available on lab websites and through the Open Science Framework (OSF).
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- Nicholas Wagner
- Department of Brain & Psychological Science, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Department of Brain & Psychological Science, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
- Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany
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- Department of Brain & Psychological Science, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Department of Brain & Psychological Science, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Department of Brain & Psychological Science, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Biostatistics and Epidemiology Data Analytics Center, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Biostatistics and Epidemiology Data Analytics Center, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Department of Brain & Psychological Science, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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Goulter N, Oberth C, McMahon RJ, Lansford JE, Dodge KA, Crowley DM, Bates JE, Pettit GS. Predictive Validity of Adolescent Callous-Unemotional Traits and Conduct Problems with Respect to Adult Outcomes: High- and Low-Risk Samples. Child Psychiatry Hum Dev 2023; 54:1321-1335. [PMID: 35262849 PMCID: PMC9931993 DOI: 10.1007/s10578-022-01334-7] [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] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 02/08/2022] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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Current understanding of the predictive validity of callous-unemotional (CU) traits is limited by (a) the focus on externalizing psychopathology and antisocial behaviors, (b) a lack of long-term prospective longitudinal data, (c) samples comprised of high-risk or low-risk individuals. We tested whether adolescent CU traits and conduct problems were associated with theoretically relevant adult outcomes 12-18 years later. Participants were drawn from two studies: higher-risk Fast Track (FT; n = 754) and lower-risk Child Development Project (CDP; n = 585). FT: conduct problems positively predicted externalizing and internalizing psychopathology and partner violence, and negatively predicted health, wellbeing, and education. Three conduct problems × CU traits interaction effects were also found. CDP: CU traits positively predicted depression and negatively predicted health and education; conduct problems positively predicted externalizing and internalizing psychopathology and substance use, and negatively predicted wellbeing. CU traits did not provide incremental predictive validity for multiple adult outcomes relative to conduct problems.
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- Natalie Goulter
- Department of Psychology, Simon Fraser University, 8888 University Drive, Burnaby, BC, V5A 1S6, Canada.
- BC Children's Hospital Research Institute, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
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- Department of Psychology, Simon Fraser University, 8888 University Drive, Burnaby, BC, V5A 1S6, Canada
- BC Children's Hospital Research Institute, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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- Department of Psychology, Simon Fraser University, 8888 University Drive, Burnaby, BC, V5A 1S6, Canada
- BC Children's Hospital Research Institute, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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- Center for Child and Family Policy, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
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- Human Development and Family Studies, Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA, USA
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- Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA
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- Human Development and Family Studies, Auburn University, Auburn, AL, USA
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Dede B, White BA. Social problems in young children: the interplay of ADHD symptoms and facial emotion recognition. Cogn Emot 2023:1-8. [PMID: 37712657 DOI: 10.1080/02699931.2023.2258582] [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: 09/07/2022] [Revised: 06/26/2023] [Accepted: 06/27/2023] [Indexed: 09/16/2023]
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Facial emotion recognition (FER) deficits interfere with interpretation of social situations and selection of appropriate responses. Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) symptoms are independently associated with social difficulties and might exacerbate the influence of deficient FER, because children with ADHD symptoms have fewer compensatory resources in social situations when they misinterpret emotions. Very few studies have tested this hypothesis in a community context, where child ADHD symptoms vary on a continuum. The current study extended this work by utilising a community sample (N = 87) of boys and girls in middle childhood (M = 7.83 years) and testing for moderation of FER effects separately by ADHD symptom type (ADHD-I = inattentive, H = hyperactive/impulsive, C = combined) using linear regression. While lower FER was associated with more social problems, this relationship was qualified by the presence of ADHD symptoms. Specifically, only children with relatively high ADHD symptoms in our community sample showed this inverse relationship, which was clearest among children with elevated ADHD-C or ADHD-I symptoms. No gender differences were observed. These results support our primary hypothesis, extend prior findings to boys and girls in the community, and have implications for understanding how ADHD symptoms and FER influence youth social deficits.
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- Breanna Dede
- Center for Youth Development and Intervention, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, USA
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- Center for Youth Development and Intervention, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, USA
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Olaya-Galindo MD, Vargas-Cifuentes OA, Vélez Van-Meerbeke A, Talero-Gutiérrez C. Establishing the Relationship Between Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and Emotional Facial Expression Recognition Deficit: A Systematic Review. J Atten Disord 2023; 27:1181-1195. [PMID: 36843351 PMCID: PMC10466982 DOI: 10.1177/10870547231154901] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/28/2023]
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OBJECTIVE In this review, we examined if there is a deficit in facial recognition of emotion (FER) in children, adolescents, and adults with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). BACKGROUND Emotional regulation is impaired in ADHD. Although a facial emotion recognition deficit has been described in this condition, the underlying causal mechanisms remain unclear. METHODS The search was performed in six databases in September 2022. Studies assessing children, adolescents, or adults with isolated or comorbid ADHD that evaluated participants using a FER task were included. RESULTS Twelve studies out of 385 were selected, with participants ranging in age from 6 to 37.1 years. A deficit in FER specific to ADHD, or secondary to comorbid autism spectrum disorder, anxiety, and oppositional symptoms, was found. CONCLUSIONS There is a FER deficit in patients with ADHD. Adults showed improved recognition accuracy, reflecting partial compensation. ADHD symptoms and comorbidities appear to influence FER deficits.
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- Maria Daniela Olaya-Galindo
- Neuroscience research group (NeURos), NeuroVitae Center for Neuroscience, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universidad del Rosario, Bogotá, Colombia
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- Neuroscience research group (NeURos), NeuroVitae Center for Neuroscience, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universidad del Rosario, Bogotá, Colombia
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- Neuroscience research group (NeURos), NeuroVitae Center for Neuroscience, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universidad del Rosario, Bogotá, Colombia
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- Neuroscience research group (NeURos), NeuroVitae Center for Neuroscience, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universidad del Rosario, Bogotá, Colombia
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Emotional intelligence: Behavioral emotion regulation and health-related quality of life in students with hearing loss. CURRENT PSYCHOLOGY 2023. [DOI: 10.1007/s12144-023-04449-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/11/2023]
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Bulgarelli C, Jones EJH. The typical and atypical development of empathy: How big is the gap from lab to field? JCPP ADVANCES 2023. [DOI: 10.1002/jcv2.12136] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023] Open
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- Chiara Bulgarelli
- Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development Birkbeck University of London London UK
- Department of Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering University College London London UK
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- Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development Birkbeck University of London London UK
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Paine AL, van Goozen SHM, Burley DT, Anthony R, Shelton KH. Facial emotion recognition in adopted children. Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry 2023; 32:87-99. [PMID: 34228226 PMCID: PMC9908728 DOI: 10.1007/s00787-021-01829-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/15/2021] [Accepted: 06/13/2021] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Children adopted from public care are more likely to experience emotional and behavioural problems. We investigated two aspects of emotion recognition that may be associated with these outcomes, including discrimination accuracy of emotions and response bias, in a mixed-method, multi-informant study of 4-to-8-year old children adopted from local authority care in the UK (N = 42). We compared adopted children's emotion recognition performance to that of a comparison group of children living with their birth families, who were matched by age, sex, and teacher-rated total difficulties on the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ, N = 42). We also examined relationships between adopted children's emotion recognition skills and their pre-adoptive histories of early adversity (indexed by cumulative adverse childhood experiences), their parent- and teacher-rated emotional and behavioural problems, and their parents' coded warmth during a Five Minute Speech Sample. Adopted children showed significantly worse facial emotion discrimination accuracy of sad and angry faces than non-adopted children. Adopted children's discrimination accuracy of scared and neutral faces was negatively associated with parent-reported behavioural problems, and discrimination accuracy of angry and scared faces was associated with parent- and teacher-reported emotional problems. Contrary to expectations, children who experienced more recorded pre-adoptive early adversity were more accurate in identifying negative emotions. Warm adoptive parenting was associated with fewer behavioural problems, and a lower tendency for children to incorrectly identify faces as angry. Study limitations and implications for intervention strategies to support adopted children's emotion recognition and psychological adjustment are discussed.
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- Amy L Paine
- School of Psychology, Cardiff University, Tower Building, 70 Park Place, Cardiff, CF10 3AT, UK.
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- School of Psychology, Cardiff University, Tower Building, 70 Park Place, Cardiff, CF10 3AT, UK
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- Wolfson Centre for Young People's Mental Health, Cardiff University; Centre for the Development and Evaluation of Complex Interventions for Public Health Improvement (DECIPHer), School of Social Sciences , Cardiff University, 1-3 Museum Place, Cardiff, CF10 3BD, UK
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- School of Psychology, Cardiff University, Tower Building, 70 Park Place, Cardiff, CF10 3AT, UK
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Zhao FJ, Chen QW, Wu Y, Xie X, Xu Z, Ni X. Facial Emotion Recognition Deficit in Children with Moderate/Severe Obstructive Sleep Apnea. Brain Sci 2022; 12:1688. [PMID: 36552148 PMCID: PMC9776404 DOI: 10.3390/brainsci12121688] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/31/2022] [Revised: 12/03/2022] [Accepted: 12/05/2022] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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Although previous studies have reported a facial expression classification deficit among adults with SDB, we do not know whether these findings can be generalized to children. In our study, children with sleep-disordered breathing (SDB) were divided into three groups: primary snoring (n = 51), mild obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) (n = 39), and moderate/severe OSA (n = 26). All participants, including 20 healthy controls, underwent an overnight polysomnography recording and the Emotional Expression Recognition Task. Psychosocial problems were evaluated using the parent-reported Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ). There was a borderline significant interaction between expression category and group on reaction times. Further analysis revealed that positive classification advantage (PCA) disappeared in the moderate/severe OSA group, whereas it persisted in the control, primary snoring, and mild OSA groups. Emotional symptoms were positively correlated with OAHI. In both the happy and sad conditions, RT was negatively related to age and body mass index (BMI) but was independent of the obstructive apnea-hypopnea index (OAHI), arterial oxygen (SaO2) and total sleep time. The accuracy of identifying a sad expression was negatively related to conduct problems. Children with moderate/severe OSA exhibited dysfunction in facial expression categorization, which could potentially affect social communication ability.
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- Fu-Jun Zhao
- Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Beijing Children’s Hospital, National Center for Children’s Health, Capital Medical University, Beijing 100045, China
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- National Center for International Research on Green Optoelectronics, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510006, China
- Lab of Light and Physio-Psychological Health, School of Psychology, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510631, China
- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Optical Information Materials and Technology & Institute of Electronic Paper Displays, South China Academy of Advanced Optoelectronics, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510006, China
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- Beijing Key Laboratory of Pediatric Diseases of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Beijing Pediatric Research Institute, Beijing Children’s Hospital, National Center for Children’s Health, Capital Medical University, Beijing 100045, China
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- Division of Respiratory Medicine, Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Child Development and Disorders, National Clinical Research Center for Child Health and Disorders, Chongqing 400014, China
- International Science and Technology Cooperation Base of Child Development and Critical Disorders, Chongqing Key Laboratory of Pediatrics, Children’s Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing 400715, China
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- Department of Respiratory Medicine, Beijing Children’s Hospital, National Center for Children’s Health, Capital Medical University, Beijing 100045, China
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- Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Beijing Children’s Hospital, National Center for Children’s Health, Capital Medical University, Beijing 100045, China
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Alkalay S, Dan O. Effect of short-term methylphenidate on social impairment in children with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder: systematic review. Child Adolesc Psychiatry Ment Health 2022; 16:93. [PMID: 36443766 PMCID: PMC9706974 DOI: 10.1186/s13034-022-00526-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/17/2022] [Accepted: 11/14/2022] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is one of the most common disorders in school-age children. In addition to learning difficulties associated with the disorder's core symptoms of inattention and hyperactivity, children with ADHD display substantial social impairments. Methylphenidate (MPH) in formulations such as Ritalin or Concerta mitigates inattention and hyperactivity, but the effects of the therapy on social behavior in children with ADHD are not clear. This review aims to determine the effectiveness of short term (up to 6 months) MPH treatment on three domains of social skills in children aged 6-14 with ADHD: (i) Recognition of nonverbal emotional expressions, which are a marker of inherent (unlearned) social understanding, (ii) theory of mind (ToM) components that relate to learned cognition and social communication, and (iii) social competence in everyday environments. 15 relevant studies were identified based on inclusion/exclusion criteria. The results show mixed effects: the overall social performance as evaluated by parents, teachers or peers, and some components of ToM, were found to improve following a weeks-long course of MPH treatment. However, the effects of the medication are less clear when evaluating momentary/nonverbal social responses such as reactions to emotional facial expressions. While the findings of this review indicate that an MPH medication regime of order weeks to months could improve, to a degree, social impairment in children with ADHD, more studies are required to identify the medications' mechanism and confirm such a conclusion.
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- Sarit Alkalay
- Department of Psychology, The Center for Psychobiological Research, Max Stern Jezreel Valley Academic College, P.O.B. 72, 10806, Sede Nahum, Israel.
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- Department of Psychology, The Center for Psychobiological Research, Max Stern Jezreel Valley Academic College, P.O.B. 72, 10806 Sede Nahum, Israel
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Devi B, Preetha MMSJ. Impact of self adaptive-elephant herding optimization towards neural network for facial emotion recognition. WEB INTELLIGENCE 2022. [DOI: 10.3233/web-210481] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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FACIAL expression is one of the most efficient, universal and fundamental indicators to identify their emotions and intentions in humans. Various experiments have already been performed on automatic Facial Emotion Recognition (FER) owing to useful significance in medical diagnosis, stress monitoring for drivers, sociable robots, and other human-computer interface devices. Here, this proposed framework consists of two processes namely; “(i) proposed feature extraction and (ii) classification”. Here, a major novelty relies in the initial phase (i.e. feature extraction phase), where the Proposed Local Vector Pattern (Proposed- LVP) based features are extracted. In addition to the proposed-LVP, the other Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT) and Gray Level Co-occurrence Matrix (GLCM) based features are also extracted. Besides, the Principal Component Analysis (PCA) method is used for reducing the dimension of the features. Further, they are subjected to classification process, where Optimized Neural Network (NN) is used. More particularly, a new Improved Elephant Herding Optimization (EHO) model termed as Self Adaptive-EHO (SA-EHO) is used to train the NN model via selecting the optimal weights. At last, the proposed work performance is computed over the other traditional systems with respect to the positive measures like “accuracy, sensitivity, specificity and precision”; negative measures like “False Positive Rate (FPR), False Negative Rate (FNR) and False Discovery Rate (FDR)”; other measures like “Negative Predictive Value (NPV), F1-score and Matthew’s Correlation Coefficient (MCC)”, respectively.
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- Bhagyashri Devi
- Department of ECE, Noorul Islam Centre for Higher Education, Tamilnadu, India
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Ashori M, Aghaziarati A. The relationships among social-emotional assets and resilience, empathy and behavioral problems in deaf and hard of hearing children. CURRENT PSYCHOLOGY 2022. [DOI: 10.1007/s12144-022-03152-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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van Goozen SHM, Langley K, Hobson CW. Childhood Antisocial Behavior: A Neurodevelopmental Problem. Annu Rev Psychol 2021; 73:353-377. [PMID: 34587779 DOI: 10.1146/annurev-psych-052621-045243] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Early-onset disruptive, aggressive, and antisocial behavior is persistent, can become increasingly serious as children grow older, and is difficult to change. In 2007, our group proposed a theoretical model highlighting the interplay between neurobiological deficits and cognitive and emotional functioning as mediators of the link between genetic influences and early social adversity, on the one hand, and antisocial behavioral problems in childhood, on the other. In this article, we review the post-2007 evidence relevant to this model. We discuss research on genetics/epigenetics, stress/arousal regulation, and emotion and executive functioning in support of the argument that antisocial children, especially those who persist in engaging in antisocial behavior as they grow older, have a range of neuropsychological characteristics that are important in explaining individual differences in the severity and persistence of antisocial behavior. Current clinical practice tends not to acknowledge these individual neuropsychological risks factors or to target them for intervention. We argue that aggressive and disruptive behavior in childhood should be regarded as a neurodevelopmental problem and that intervening at the level of mediating neuropsychological processes represents a promising way forward in tackling these serious behavioral problems. Expected final online publication date for the Annual Review of Psychology, Volume 73 is January 2022. Please see http://www.annualreviews.org/page/journal/pubdates for revised estimates.
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- Stephanie H M van Goozen
- School of Psychology, Cardiff University, Cardiff CF10 3AT, United Kingdom; .,Department of Clinical Neurodevelopmental Studies, Leiden University, 2333 AK Leiden, The Netherlands
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- School of Psychology, Cardiff University, Cardiff CF10 3AT, United Kingdom;
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