Anxiety symptoms are differentially associated with facial expression processing in boys and girls
Doucet G, Kruse J, Keefe A, Rice D, Coutant A, Pulliam H, Smith O, Calhoun V, Stephen J, Wang Y, White S, Picci G, Taylor B, Wilson T. Anxiety symptoms are differentially associated with facial expression processing in boys and girls. Social Cognitive And Affective Neuroscience 2024, 19: nsae085. PMID: 39587034, PMCID: PMC11631531, DOI: 10.1093/scan/nsae085.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchFacial expression processingAssociated with psychiatric disordersExpression processingFacial expressionsFunctional magnetic resonance imagingFace processing taskMedial temporal cortexTypically-developing youthLevels of anxietyEmotional facesNeutral contrastAnxiety symptomsPosterior networkPsychiatric disordersFacial emotionsBrain responsesTemporal cortexNeural mechanismsHigher anxietyFMRI dataAnxietySocial informationAnxiety levelsBehavioral changesMagnetic resonance imaging