Preschoolers of mothers with affective and anxiety disorders show impairments in cognitive inhibition during a chimeric animal stroop.
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ABSTRACT
Aims:
To determine whether maternal affective and anxiety disorders are associated with cognitive inhibitory deficits in four-year-old children utilizing a chimeric animal stroop task, a childhood adaptation of the traditional stroop task. StudyDesign:
Blinded Cross-Sectional Study. Place and Duration of Study Department of Psychiatry, University of Colorado School of Medicine, data collected from June 2009 to October 2010.Methodology:
Four-year-olds of mothers with (n=29) and without (n=31) a history of affective or anxiety disorders completed a chimeric animal version of the stroop task. Incongruent, neutral, and congruent stimuli were presented over three trial blocks. Mean reaction time and response accuracy were the primary dependent measures.Results:
The increase in the number of incorrect responses to incongruent versus congruent or neutral stimuli was larger for offspring of a mother with a history of an affective or anxiety disorder than without (t=2.4, P=.02); there was no significant main effect of maternal psychiatric illness (F(1, 58)=0.9, P=.34) or a stimulus type by maternal illness (F(1 , 58)=1.1, P=.30) interaction on reaction time.Conclusion:
The association between maternal affective and anxiety disorders and cognitive inhibitory deficit is already identifiable by four years of age.
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IMSEAR (South-East Asia)
Type of study:
Observational study
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Prognostic study
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Risk factors
Language:
English
Year:
2013
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Article
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