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An Experimental Investigation of Hypervigilance for Threat in Children and Adolescents with Post-traumatic Stress Disorder

Overview
Journal Psychol Med
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Specialty Psychology
Date 2001 Apr 18
PMID 11305862
Citations 65
Authors
T Dalgleish
A R Moradi
M R Taghavi
W Yule
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Abstract

Background: The present study examined biases in visual attention for emotional material in children and adolescents with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and healthy controls.

Methods: The participants carried out an attentional deployment task in which probe detection latency data were used to determine the distribution of visual attention for threat-related and depression-related material.

Results: The results showed that children and adolescents with PTSD, relative to controls, selectively allocated processing resources towards socially threatening stimuli and away from depression-related stimuli. This attentional avoidance of depression-related information in the PTSD participants declined with age.

Conclusions: The results of the study are interpreted as a consolidation and extension of previous research on attentional bias and emotional disorder in younger participants.

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