scholarly journals Behavioral inhibition and EEG delta-beta correlation in early childhood: Comparing a between-subjects and within-subjects approach

2020 ◽  
Vol 149 ◽  
pp. 107785 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristie L. Poole ◽  
Berenice Anaya ◽  
Koraly E. Pérez-Edgar
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Behavioral Inhibition ◽  
Within Subjects

scholarly journals Sleep and Coping in Early Childhood During the COVID-19 Pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sanna Lokhandwala ◽  
Jennifer F. Holmes ◽  
Gina M. Mason ◽  
Christine W. St. Laurent ◽  
Cassandra Delvey ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Coping Strategies ◽  
Sleep Disturbances ◽  
Stressful Event ◽  
Falling Asleep ◽  
Within Subjects ◽  
Children's Coping ◽  
The Stability ◽  
And Coping ◽  
Children’S Sleep

Sleep disturbances in early childhood are associated with mood and anxiety disorders. Children also exhibit sleep disruptions, such as nighttime awakenings, nightmares, and difficulties falling asleep, in conjunction with adverse events and stress. Prior studies have examined independently the role of sleep on adaptive processing, as well as the effects of stress on sleep. However, how childhood sleep and children's adaptive behavior (i.e., coping strategies) bidirectionally interact is currently less known. Using a within-subjects design and actigraphy-measured sleep from 16 preschool-aged children (Mage = 56.4 months, SD = 10.8, range: 36–70 months), this study investigated how prior sleep patterns relate to children's coping during a potentially stressful event, the COVID-19 pandemic, and how prior coping skills may influence children's sleep during the pandemic. Children who woke earlier had greater negative expression both before and during the pandemic. During the pandemic, children slept longer and woke later on average compared to before the pandemic. Additionally, for children engaged in at-home learning, sleeping longer was associated with less negative expression. These findings highlight how sleep behaviors and coping strategies are related, and the stability of this relationship under stress.

scholarly journals The BDNF gene val66met polymorphism and behavioral inhibition in early childhood

2018 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 543-554
Author(s):  
Matthew R. J. Vandermeer ◽  
Haroon I. Sheikh ◽  
Shiva S. Singh ◽  
Daniel N. Klein ◽  
Thomas M. Olino ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Behavioral Inhibition ◽  
Bdnf Gene ◽  
Val66met Polymorphism

scholarly journals Impact of Behavioral Inhibition and Parenting Style on Internalizing and Externalizing Problems from Early Childhood through Adolescence

2009 ◽  
Vol 37 (8) ◽  
pp. 1063-1075 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lela Rankin Williams ◽  
Kathryn A. Degnan ◽  
Koraly E. Perez-Edgar ◽  
Heather A. Henderson ◽  
Kenneth H. Rubin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Parenting Style ◽  
Behavioral Inhibition ◽  
Externalizing Problems ◽  
Internalizing And Externalizing Problems ◽  
Internalizing And Externalizing

scholarly journals Levels of early-childhood behavioral inhibition predict distinct neurodevelopmental pathways to pediatric anxiety

2019 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 96-106 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rany Abend ◽  
Caroline Swetlitz ◽  
Lauren K. White ◽  
Tomer Shechner ◽  
Yair Bar-Haim ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Behavioral Inhibition ◽  
Attention Bias ◽  
Anxiety Symptoms ◽  
Childhood And Adolescence ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Linear Mixed Effects ◽  
Pediatric Anxiety ◽  
History Of ◽  
Bias Attention

AbstractBackgroundAnxiety symptoms gradually emerge during childhood and adolescence. Individual differences in behavioral inhibition (BI), an early-childhood temperament, may shape developmental paths through which these symptoms arise. Cross-sectional research suggests that level of early-childhood BI moderates associations between later anxiety symptoms and threat-related amygdala–prefrontal cortex (PFC) circuitry function. However, no study has characterized these associations longitudinally. Here, we tested whether level of early-childhood BI predicts distinct evolving associations between amygdala–PFC function and anxiety symptoms across development.MethodsEighty-seven children previously assessed for BI level in early childhood provided data at ages 10 and/or 13 years, consisting of assessments of anxiety and an fMRI-based dot-probe task (including threat, happy, and neutral stimuli). Using linear-mixed-effects models, we investigated longitudinal changes in associations between anxiety symptoms and threat-related amygdala–PFC connectivity, as a function of early-childhood BI.ResultsIn children with a history of high early-childhood BI, anxiety symptoms became, with age, morenegativelyassociated with right amygdala–left dorsolateral-PFC connectivity when attention was to be maintained on threat. In contrast, with age, low-BI children showed an increasinglypositiveanxiety–connectivity association during the same task condition. Behaviorally, at age 10, anxiety symptoms did not relate to fluctuations in attention bias (attention bias variability, ABV) in either group; by age 13, low-BI children showed a negative anxiety–ABV association, whereas high-BI children showed a positive anxiety–ABV association.ConclusionsEarly-childhood BI levels predict distinct neurodevelopmental pathways to pediatric anxiety symptoms. These pathways involve distinct relations among brain function, behavior, and anxiety symptoms, which may inform diagnosis and treatment.

scholarly journals The serotonin transporter promoter polymorphism moderates the continuity of behavioral inhibition in early childhood

2016 ◽  
Vol 28 (4pt1) ◽  
pp. 1103-1116 ◽  
Author(s):  
Victoria C. Johnson ◽  
Katie R. Kryski ◽  
Haroon I. Sheikh ◽  
Heather J. Smith ◽  
Shiva M. Singh ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Anxiety Disorder ◽  
Serotonin Transporter ◽  
Behavioral Inhibition ◽  
Promoter Polymorphism ◽  
Contextual Influences ◽  
Polymorphic Region ◽  
Serotonin Transporter Promoter Polymorphism ◽  
Child Factors ◽  
Parent Characteristics

AbstractPersistently elevated behavioral inhibition (BI) in children is a marker of vulnerability to psychopathology. However, little research has considered the joint influences of caregiver and child factors that may moderate the continuity of BI in early childhood, particularly genetic variants that may serve as markers of biological plasticity, such as the serotonin transporter linked polymorphic region (5-HTTLPR). We explored this issue in 371 preschoolers and their caregivers, examining whether parent characteristics (i.e., overinvolvement or anxiety disorder) and child 5-HTTLPR influenced the continuity of BI between ages 3 and 5. Measures were observational ratings of child BI, observational and questionnaire measures of parenting, and parent interviews for anxiety disorder history, and children were genotyped for the 5-HTTLPR. Parent factors did not moderate the association between age 3 and age 5 BI; however, child BI at age 3 interacted with children's 5-HTTLPR variants to predict age 5 BI, such that children with at least one copy of the short allele exhibited less continuity of BI over time relative to children without this putative plasticity variant. Findings are consistent with previous work indicating the 5-HTTLPR short variant increases plasticity to contextual influences, thereby serving to decrease the continuity of BI in early childhood.

scholarly journals Early Childhood Behavioral Inhibition Predicts Cortical Thickness in Adulthood

2016 ◽  
Vol 55 (2) ◽  
pp. 122-129.e1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chad M. Sylvester ◽  
Deanna M. Barch ◽  
Michael P. Harms ◽  
Andy C. Belden ◽  
Timothy J. Oakberg ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Cortical Thickness ◽  
Behavioral Inhibition

scholarly journals Lasting associations between early-childhood temperament and late-adolescent reward-circuitry response to peer feedback

2014 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 229-243 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amanda E. Guyer ◽  
Brenda Benson ◽  
Victoria R. Choate ◽  
Yair Bar-Haim ◽  
Koraly Perez-Edgar ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Behavioral Inhibition ◽  
Early Adulthood ◽  
Neural Response ◽  
Social Contexts ◽  
Response Patterns ◽  
Imaging Data ◽  
Social Signals ◽  
Social Evaluation ◽  
Late Adolescent

AbstractBehavioral inhibition, a temperament identifiable in infancy, is associated with heightened withdrawal from social encounters. Prior studies raise particular interest in the striatum, which responds uniquely to monetary gains in behaviorally inhibited children followed into adolescence. Although behavioral manifestations of inhibition are expressed primarily in the social domain, it remains unclear whether observed striatal alterations to monetary incentives also extend to social contexts. In the current study, imaging data were acquired from 39 participants (17 males, 22 females; ages 16–18 years) characterized since infancy on measures of behavioral inhibition. A social evaluation task was used to assess neural response to anticipation and receipt of positive and negative feedback from novel peers, classified by participants as being of high or low interest. As with monetary rewards, striatal response patterns differed during both anticipation and receipt of social reward between behaviorally inhibited and noninhibited adolescents. The current results, when combined with prior findings, suggest that early-life temperament predicts altered striatal response in both social and nonsocial contexts and provide support for continuity between temperament measured in early childhood and neural response to social signals measured in late adolescence and early adulthood.

scholarly journals Perceptions of Portuguese psychologists about behavioural inhibition/social withdrawal and their related intervention needs during early childhood

Psicologia ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 147-161
Author(s):  
Maryse Guedes ◽  
Leandra Coelho ◽  
António J. Santos ◽  
Manuela Veríssimo
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Behavioral Inhibition ◽  
Social Withdrawal ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Participation Rates ◽  
Problem Recognition ◽  
Behavioural Inhibition ◽  
The Social ◽  
Interview Guide ◽  
High Prevalence

Given the high prevalence of anxiety disorders, there has been an increasing need to intervene on the early risk factors for their development, namely behavioral inhibition and social withdrawal (BI/SW) during early childhood. However, the participation rates in preventive evidence-based interventions targeted at BI/SW have been modest, due to the gaps in parents’ and key gatekeepers’ (teachers and pediatricians) problem recognition. Given their pivotal role in enhancing problem recognition, this study aimed to explore the perceptions of Portuguese psychologists about BI/SW and their related intervention needs. Eighteen psychologists were distributed into three focus groups. Each focus group was moderated by a trained researcher, using a semi-structured interview guide. The thematic analysis revealed that Portuguese psychologists identified the manifestations and consequences of BI/SW, particularly in the social domain. Portuguese psychologists recommended the development of multi-component family interventions and interventions targeted at preschool teachers to promote social skills in the classroom.

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