Neurally Targeted Interventions to Reduce Early Childhood Anxiety

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Conditions studied: Anxiety Disorders

In brief

Clinically significant anxiety affects up to 20% of preschool-aged children and often fails to respond to currently available treatments. Emerging science suggests that increasing brain capacity for "effortful control" (EC) may help anxious children to regulate emotion and behavior to improve outcomes. Thus, in the proposed study, children will be trained on EC tasks (including selective attention, response inhibition, etc.) to increase capacity for effortful control (EC) over fear behaviors. To determine whether EC training improves brain capacity to regulate fear, investigators will assess neurophysiological and behavioral indices of effortful control and fear reactivity before and after this training.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT03093376

Run by

University of Michigan

People needed

48

Starts

2017-03-30

Expected to finish

2020-10-29

Last updated by the study team

2021-08-12

Who can join

Age: 4 and older, up to 7. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Children between 4.0 and 6.99 years
• Child has current anxiety symptoms
• Parent/caregiver is English-speaking.

You may not qualify if…

• Child cannot be currently taking medications that affect central nervous system functioning.
• No history of:
• Head injury
• Serious medical or neurological illness
• Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
• Neurodevelopmental delay
• Autism spectrum disorder (ASD)
• Intellectual disability

Where it is running

• University of Michigan — Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States

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