@article{ref1,
title="Hurricane Sandy exposure alters the development of neural reactivity to negative stimuli in children",
journal="Child development",
year="2016",
author="Kessel, Ellen M. and Nelson, Brady D. and Kujawa, Autumn and Hajcak, Greg and Kotov, Roman and Bromet, Evelyn J. and Carlson, Gabrielle A. and Klein, Daniel N.",
volume="ePub",
number="ePub",
pages="ePub-ePub",
abstract="This study examined whether exposure to Hurricane Sandy-related stressors altered children's brain response to emotional information. An average of 8 months (Mage  = 9.19) before and 9 months after (Mage  = 10.95) Hurricane Sandy, 77 children experiencing high (n = 37) and low (n = 40) levels of hurricane-related stress exposure completed a task in which the late positive potential, a neural index of emotional reactivity, was measured in response to pleasant and unpleasant, compared to neutral, images. From pre- to post-Hurricane Sandy, children with high stress exposure failed to show the same decrease in emotional reactivity to unpleasant versus neutral stimuli as those with low stress exposure. <br><br>RESULTS provide compelling evidence that exposure to natural disaster-related stressors alters neural emotional reactivity to negatively valenced information.<br><br>© 2016 The Authors. Child Development © 2016 Society for Research in Child Development, Inc.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0009-3920",
doi="10.1111/cdev.12691",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/cdev.12691"
}