Impact of gender on child and adolescent PTSD

K Garza, T Jovanovic - Current psychiatry reports, 2017 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review This review examines the recent literature on biological factors
that influence sex differences in posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) during childhood and …

Safety learning during development: Implications for development of psychopathology

LR Grasser, T Jovanovic - Behavioural Brain Research, 2021 - Elsevier
Fear and safety learning are necessary adaptive behaviors that develop over the course of
maturation. While there is a large body of literature regarding the neurobiology of fear and …

Association of CRP Genetic Variation and CRP Level With Elevated PTSD Symptoms and Physiological Responses in a Civilian Population With High Levels of …

V Michopoulos, AO Rothbaum… - American Journal of …, 2015 - Am Psychiatric Assoc
Objective: Increased systemic inflammation is associated with stress-related
psychopathology. Specifically, levels of the proinflammatory marker C-reactive protein …

Gender differences in anxiety: The mediating role of sensitivity to unpredictable threat

K Burani, BD Nelson - International Journal of Psychophysiology, 2020 - Elsevier
Anxiety disorders and symptoms disproportionately impact women relative to men, but it is
unclear what mechanism (s) contribute to this phenomenon. The present study examined …

Familial risk for distress and fear disorders and emotional reactivity in adolescence: An event-related potential investigation

BD Nelson, G Perlman, G Hajcak, DN Klein… - Psychological …, 2015 - cambridge.org
BackgroundThe late positive potential (LPP) is an event-related potential component that is
sensitive to the motivational salience of stimuli. Children with a parental history of …

Psychiatric symptoms experienced by adolescents in Nepal following the 2015 earthquakes

S Silwal, R Dybdahl, R Chudal, A Sourander… - Journal of affective …, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract Background In 2015, Nepal was hit by two major earthquakes, which caused 8900
deaths and displaced more than 450,000 people. We assessed the prevalence of post …

Emotion processing in female youth: Testing the stability of the late positive potential

E Bondy, JG Stewart, G Hajcak, A Weinberg… - …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Emotional Interrupt Task (EIT) has been used to probe emotion processing in
healthy and clinical samples; however, research exploring the stability and reliability of …

Puberty drives fear learning during adolescence

AF Stenson, NR Nugent, SJH van Rooij… - Developmental …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Risk for adverse outcomes, including the onset of mental illness, increases during
adolescence. This increase may be linked to both new exposures, such as violence at home …

[HTML][HTML] Neighborhood disadvantage associated with blunted amygdala reactivity to predictable and unpredictable threat in a community sample of youth

AA Huggins, LM McTeague, MM Davis, N Bustos… - … psychiatry global open …, 2022 - Elsevier
Background Childhood socioeconomic disadvantage is a form of adversity associated with
alterations in critical frontolimbic circuits involved in the pathophysiology of psychiatric …

Exposure to an obesogenic diet during adolescence leads to abnormal maturation of neural and behavioral substrates underpinning fear and anxiety

JD Vega-Torres, E Haddad, JB Lee… - Brain, behavior, and …, 2018 - Elsevier
Background Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and obesity are highly prevalent in
adolescents. Emerging findings from our laboratory and others are consistent with the novel …