Quantitative and qualitative reviews of the literature on sex differences in facial expression
processing (FEP) have yielded conflicting findings regarding children. This study was …

Background. Many changes in social behavior take place during adolescence. Sexuality
and romantic interests emerge during this time, and adolescents spend more time with peers …

Fear conditioning represents the process by which a neutral stimulus comes to evoke fear
following its repeated pairing with an aversive stimulus. Although fear conditioning has long …

Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is characterized by flares of inflammation with a periodic
need for increased medication and sometimes even surgery. The aetiology of IBD is partly …

Adolescents' propensity for risk-taking and reward-seeking behaviors suggests a heightened
sensitivity for reward, reflected by greater feedback-related activity changes in reward …

Selective attention, particularly during the processing of emotionally evocative events, is a
crucial component of adolescent development. We used functional magnetic resonance …

Objective: While adolescent anxiety disorders represent prevalent, debilitating conditions,
few studies have explored their brain physiology. Using event-related functional magnetic …

Context Considerable work implicates abnormal neural activation and disrupted attention to
facial-threat cues in adult anxiety disorders. However, in pediatric anxiety, no research has …

We examined neural activations during decision-making using fMRI paired with the wheel
of fortune task, a newly developed two-choice decision-making task with probabilistic …

BACKGROUND: Females appear to be more sensitive and responsive to social cues, including
threat signals, than are males. Recent theoretical models suggest that developmental …