Abstract

Investigations on emotional words demonstrated that processing emotional information in child patients with anxiety disorders diagnosed for anxiety (generalized anxiety disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder) or depression is biased towards pathology-related stimuli. Also, neuroimaging studies showed a failure of prefrontal areas in inhibiting the emotional reaction in children with bipolar disorder. Finally, despite several studies investigated memory and attention using emotional words, little is known about the development of emotional lexicon in both healthy and psychopathological children.

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Authors

Bellani M, Bonivento C, Brambilla P

Institution

Department of Public Health and Community Medicine, Section of Psychiatry, Inter-University Center for Behavioural Neurosciences (ICBN), University of Verona, Verona, Italy. marcella.bellani@univr.it

Source

Epidemiology and psychiatric sciences 21:3 2012 Sep pg 249-53

MeSH

Adolescent
Adolescent Development
Adult
Attention
Child
Child Development
Cognition
Emotions
Humans
Linguistics
Memory
Mental Disorders
Psychopathology
Young Adult

Pub Type(s)

Journal Article
Review

Language

eng

PubMed ID

22794034