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Neurobiological sensitivity to unpredictable threat and familial risk for the internalizing and externalizing spectra in adolescents.
Psychological medicine - 1 Sept 2023
Beatty Clare C, Ferry Rachel A, Eaton Nicholas R, Klein Daniel N, Nelson Brady D
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BACKGROUND: Adolescence is a key developmental period for the emergence of psychiatric disorders. However, there is still no consensus on the core mechanisms of dysfunction in youth. Neurobiological sensitivity to unpredictable threat has been associated with several psychiatric disorders in adults. The present study examined adolescent defensive motivation (startle reflex) and attention (event-related...
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