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Temperament and anxiety disordersKoraly Perez-Edgar
University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA
Child Adolesc Psychiatr Clin N Am 14:681-706, viii. 2005..The authors examine the outstanding issues that must be addressed before the benefits of bridging these traditionally independent fields of study can be fully exploited...- 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... 
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...- 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... 
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...- Individual differences in children's performance during an emotional Stroop task: a behavioral and electrophysiological studyKoraly Perez-Edgar
Department of Human Development, Child Development Laboratory, University of Maryland, 3304 Benjamin Building, College Park, MD 20742, USA
Brain Cogn 52:33-51. 2003..In addition, positive and negative words showed differences in processing across components. In particular, negative words appeared to tax attentional and processing resources more than positive words... - Attention to novelty in behaviorally inhibited adolescents moderates risk for anxietyBethany C Reeb-Sutherland
Department of Human Development, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA
J Child Psychol Psychiatry 50:1365-72. 2009..The current study considers whether this attention profile moderates risk for clinical anxiety disorders among adolescents with a history of BI... - 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... - 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... - Striatal responses to negative monetary outcomes differ between temperamentally inhibited and non-inhibited adolescentsSarah M Helfinstein
University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA
Neuropsychologia 49:479-85. 2011..This suggests a perturbed ability to encode reward value... - 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... - 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... - 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... - 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... - Variations of the flanker paradigm: assessing selective attention in young childrenJennifer Martin McDermott
Department of Human Development, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA
Behav Res Methods 39:62-70. 2007.... - Startle response in behaviorally inhibited adolescents with a lifetime occurrence of anxiety disordersBethany C Reeb-Sutherland
Department of Human Development, University of Maryland, 3304 Benjamin Building, College Park, MD 20742, USA
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 48:610-7. 2009..The current study examines whether the startle reflex response may be used to differentiate between behaviorally inhibited adolescents with and without a history of anxiety... - 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...