title: Relationships Between Impulsivity, Anxiety, and Risk-Taking and the Neural Correlates of Attention in Adolescents.
abstract: Although impulsivity, anxiety, and risk-taking may relate to attentional processes, little research has directly investigated how each may be associated with specific facets of attentional processes and their underlying neural correlates. Nineteen adolescents performed a functional magnetic resonance imaging task involving simple, selective, and divided attention. Out-of-scanner-assessed impulsivity, anxiety, and risk-taking scores were not correlated with each other and showed task-phase-specific patterns of association. Results are discussed in light of research and theory suggesting a relationship between these domains and attention and may serve to focus future research aiming to understand these relationships.
authors.affiliation: a Child Study Center , Yale University School of Medicine , New Haven , Connecticut.|b Department of Clinical Psychology , University of Amsterdam , Amsterdam , The Netherlands.
authors.forename: James W B
authors.initials: JW
authors.lastname: Elsey
authors.affiliation: a Child Study Center , Yale University School of Medicine , New Haven , Connecticut.
authors.forename: Michael J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Crowley
authors.affiliation: c Haskins Laboratories , Yale University , New Haven , Connecticut.
authors.forename: W Einar
authors.initials: WE
authors.lastname: Mencl
authors.affiliation: d Department of Diagnostic Radiology , Yale University School of Medicine , New Haven , Connecticut.
authors.forename: Cheryl M
authors.initials: CM
authors.lastname: Lacadie
authors.affiliation: a Child Study Center , Yale University School of Medicine , New Haven , Connecticut.|e Departments of Epidemiology, Pediatrics and Psychology , Yale University School of Medicine , New Haven , Connecticut.
authors.forename: Linda C
authors.initials: LC
authors.lastname: Mayes
authors.affiliation: f Departments of Psychiatry and Neurobiology and CASAColumbia , Yale University School of Medicine , New Haven , Connecticut.|g Connecticut Mental Health Center , New Haven , Connecticut.
authors.forename: Marc N
authors.initials: MN
authors.lastname: Potenza
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001007:Anxiety / Q000503:physiopathology* / Q000523:psychology*; D001143:Arousal / Q000502:physiology; D001288:Attention / Q000502:physiology*; D001921:Brain / Q000503:physiopathology*; D001931:Brain Mapping; D015331:Cohort Studies; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007175:Impulsive Behavior / Q000502:physiology*; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D009434:Neural Pathways / Q000503:physiopathology; D017397:Prefrontal Cortex / Q000503:physiopathology*; D012309:Risk-Taking; D055815:Young Adult