Late positive potential reveals sustained threat contingencies despite extinction in adolescents but not adults.
Gil Shner-LivneNadav BarakIdo ShitritRany AbendTomer ShechnerPublished in: Psychological medicine (2024)
In line with developmental theories, adolescence is characterized by a specific age-related difficulty adapting to diminishing emotional significance of prior threats, contributing to heightened vulnerability to anxiety symptoms. Further, LPP appears to be sensitive to developmental differences in threat learning and may thus potentially serve as a useful biomarker in research on adolescents, threat learning, and anxiety.