2024
Responding to threat: Associations between neural reactivity to and behavioral avoidance of threat in pediatric anxiety
Kitt E, Zacharek S, Odriozola P, Nardini C, Hommel G, Martino A, Anderson T, Spencer H, Broussard A, Dean J, Marin C, Silverman W, Lebowitz E, Gee D. Responding to threat: Associations between neural reactivity to and behavioral avoidance of threat in pediatric anxiety. Journal Of Affective Disorders 2024, 351: 818-826. PMID: 38290579, PMCID: PMC10981528, DOI: 10.1016/j.jad.2024.01.204.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsReactivity to threatMeasures of avoidanceVentral anterior insulaClinician-based measuresNeural reactivityPediatric anxietyAnxiety disordersBehavioral avoidanceFunctional magnetic resonance imaging taskAmygdala functional connectivityVentromedial prefrontal cortexTreatment-seeking sampleAvoidance of threatClinically significant constructsAssociated with tasksGeneralizability of findingsPrefrontal cortexAnterior insulaNeural findingsLaboratory tasksFunctional connectivityAnxietyAmygdalaAvoidanceSignificant constructs
2016
Stimulus-Elicited Connectivity Influences Resting-State Connectivity Years Later in Human Development: A Prospective Study
Gabard-Durnam LJ, Gee DG, Goff B, Flannery J, Telzer E, Humphreys KL, Lumian DS, Fareri DS, Caldera C, Tottenham N. Stimulus-Elicited Connectivity Influences Resting-State Connectivity Years Later in Human Development: A Prospective Study. Journal Of Neuroscience 2016, 36: 4771-4784. PMID: 27122035, PMCID: PMC4846673, DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.0598-16.2016.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsMedial prefrontal cortexFunctional connectivityAmygdala-medial prefrontal cortex circuitInferior frontal gyrusResting-state functional networksFunctional architectureResting-state connectivityAmygdala functional connectivityFunctional network architecturePrefrontal cortex circuitAmygdala-mPFC circuitResting-state networksFunctional connectionsEmotional stimuliCourse of developmentFrontal gyrusAge-related changesPrefrontal cortexMotivate future investigationsCortex circuitPredictive associationsSensitive periodFunctional networksDevelopmental periodBrain function