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Familial risk for distress and fear disorders and emotional reactivity in adolescence: an event-related potential investigation.
Psychological medicine - 1 Jan 2015
Nelson B D, Perlman G, Hajcak G, Klein D N, Kotov R
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BACKGROUND: The 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 depression, an indicator of risk, have been found to exhibit an attenuated LPP to emotional stimuli. Research on depressive and anxiety disorders has organized these conditions into two empirical classes: distress and fear disorders....
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