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Genomes and GenesSpecies | Koraly Perez-EdgarSummaryAffiliation: George Mason University Country: USA Publications
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Attention biases to threat link behavioral inhibition to social withdrawal over time in very young childrenKoraly Perez-Edgar
Department of Psychology, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA 22030, USA
J Abnorm Child Psychol 39:885-95. 2011..The data provide further support for models associating attention with socioemotional development and the later emergence of clinical anxiety...
Attention alters neural responses to evocative faces in behaviorally inhibited adolescentsKoraly Perez-Edgar
Department of Psychology, George Mason University, USA
Neuroimage 35:1538-46. 2007..These patterns of reactivity may help sustain early temperamental biases over time and contribute to the observed relation between BI and anxiety...- Temperamental contributions to children's performance in an emotion-word processing task: a behavioral and electrophysiological studyKoraly Perez-Edgar
Department of Psychology, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA
Brain Cogn 65:22-35. 2007..These findings indicate that performance on an auditory selective attention task can assist in identifying underlying patterns of affective processing... - Salivary cortisol levels and infant temperament shape developmental trajectories in boys at risk for behavioral maladjustmentKoraly Perez-Edgar
Department of Psychology, George Mason University, 4400 University Drive, MS 3F5, Fairfax, VA 22030, United States
Psychoneuroendocrinology 33:916-25. 2008..The data suggested that there are unique biobehavioral mechanisms shaping specific patterns of maladjustment in childhood... - Patterns of sustained attention in infancy shape the developmental trajectory of social behavior from toddlerhood through adolescenceKoraly Perez-Edgar
Department of Psychology, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA 22030, USA
Dev Psychol 46:1723-30. 2010..These findings suggest that early individual differences in attention shape how children respond to their social environments, potentially via attention's gate-keeping role in framing a child's environment for processing... - Variations in the serotonin-transporter gene are associated with attention bias patterns to positive and negative emotion facesKoraly Perez-Edgar
Department of Psychology, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA 22030, United States
Biol Psychol 83:269-71. 2010..The data indicate a linear relation between 5-HTTLPR allelic status and attention biases to emotion, demonstrating a genetic mechanism for biased attention using ecologically valid stimuli that target socioemotional adaptation... - Attention biases to threat and behavioral inhibition in early childhood shape adolescent social withdrawalKoraly Perez-Edgar
Department of Psychology, George Mason University, 4400 University Drive, Fairfax, VA 22030, USA
Emotion 10:349-57. 2010..In addition, attention bias to threat moderated the relation between childhood BI and adolescent social withdrawal... - Stable early maternal report of behavioral inhibition predicts lifetime social anxiety disorder in adolescenceAndrea Chronis-Tuscano
Department of Psychology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 48:928-35. 2009..It was hypothesized that stable BI would predict the presence of adolescent psychiatric diagnoses, specifically SAD... 
Behavioral and electrophysiological markers of selective attention in children of parents with a history of depressionKoraly Perez-Edgar
Department of Psychology, George Mason University, 4400 University Drive, Fairfax, VA 22030, USA
Biol Psychiatry 60:1131-8. 2006..Children of parents with childhood-onset depression (COD) are at increased risk for socioemotional difficulties. This study examined potential differences in selective attention as a function of parental COD...- Speech presentation cues moderate frontal EEG asymmetry in socially withdrawn young adultsClaire Cole
Department of Psychology, George Mason University, 4400 University Drive Fairfax, VA 22030, United States
Brain Cogn 78:156-62. 2012..These results suggest that contextual affective cues may prime an individual's response to stress, particularly if they illustrate or substantiate an anticipated negative event... - The role of temperament in somatic complaints among young female adultsDeepti Gupta
George Mason University, USA
J Health Psychol 17:26-35. 2012..These findings create a more comprehensive view of the temperament-somatization link by predicting a pattern of somatic behavior rather than individual symptom complaints... - Different psychophysiological and behavioral responses elicited by frustration in pediatric bipolar disorder and severe mood dysregulationBrendan A Rich
Pediatrics and Developmental Neuropsychiatry Branch, Section on Development and Affective Neuroscience, NIMH Mood and Anxiety Program, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
Am J Psychiatry 164:309-17. 2007..e., a history of at least one manic or hypomanic episode with euphoric mood) as well as those with no diagnosis (i.e., healthy comparison children)... - The impact of reward, punishment, and frustration on attention in pediatric bipolar disorderBrendan A Rich
Pediatrics and Developmental Neuropsychiatry Branch, Mood and Anxiety Program, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892 1255, USA
Biol Psychiatry 58:532-9. 2005..We tested the hypothesis that frustration adversely impacts attention and behavior in children with bipolar disorder (BPD)...
Research Grants
- Threat and Attention in Adolescent AnxietyKoraly Perez Edgar; Fiscal Year: 2007..Work, such as this proposed research program, will help contribute to attempts to treat and prevent anxiety in adolescents. ..