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Amygdala activation in maltreated children during pre-attentive emotional processing

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McCrory, Eamon J., De Brito, Stéphane A., Kelly, Philip A., Bird, Geoffrey, Sebastian, Catherine L., Mechelli, Andrea, Samuel, Sophie, Viding, Essi·2013·British Journal of Psychiatry
DOI 10.1192/bjp.bp.112.116624
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Background: Childhood adversity is associated with significantly increased risk of psychiatric disorder. To date, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies of children have mainly focused on institutionalisation and investigated conscious processing of affect. Aims: To investigate neural response to pre-attentively presented affect cues in a community sample of children with documented experiences of maltreatment in the home. Method: A masked dot-probe paradigm involving pre-attentive presentation of angry, happy and neutral facial expressions was employed. Eighteen maltreated children were compared with 23 carefully matched non-maltreated peers. Results: Increased neural response was observed in the right amygdala for pre-attentively presented angry and happy faces in maltreated v. non-maltreated children. Level of amygdala activation was negatively associated with age at onset for several abuse subtypes. Conclusions: Maltreatment is associated with heightened neural response to positive and negative facial affect, even to stimuli outside awareness. This may represent a latent neural risk factor for future psychiatric disorder.

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Authors
McCrory, E. J., De Brito, S. A., Kelly, P. A., Bird, G., Sebastian, C. L., Mechelli, A., Samuel, S., & Viding, E.
Affiliations
  • Anna Freud Centre (GB)
  • University College London (GB)
  • King's College London (GB)
Corresponding author
McCrory, Eamon J.
ORCID
Venue
British Journal of Psychiatry
Publisher
Royal College of Psychiatrists
Published
2013-04
Volume
202
Issue
4
Pages
269-276
ISSN
  • 0007-1250 (ISSN-L)
  • 1472-1465
DOI
10.1192/bjp.bp.112.116624
OpenAlex
W2117502124
Cited by
215
References
41
Citations by year
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FWCI
21.14
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Licence
www.cambridge.org/core/terms (unspecified, 1737 d)
Locations
  • The British Journal of Psychiatry (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • BIROn (Birkbeck, University of London) (submittedVersion)
  • UCL Discovery (University College London) (submittedVersion)
  • Research Portal (King's College London) (submittedVersion)
  • University of Birmingham Research Portal (University of Birmingham) (submittedVersion)
Funders
Economic and Social Research Council (ES/G000131/1)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child Abuse and Trauma
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Child Welfare and Adoption
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending
Keywords
child abuse, amygdala activation, facial expressions, dot-probe task, childhood adversity, psychiatric risk
MeSH terms
Age Factors, Amygdala, Attention, Child, Child Abuse, Cues, Emotions, Humans, Functional Laterality, Male, Psychiatric Status Rating Scales, Psychomotor Performance, Case-Control Studies, Functional Neuroimaging

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