TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2016//
TI  - Hurricane Sandy exposure alters the development of neural reactivity to negative stimuli in children
JO  - Child development
A1  - Kessel, Ellen M.
A1  - Nelson, Brady D.
A1  - Kujawa, Autumn
A1  - Hajcak, Greg
A1  - Kotov, Roman
A1  - Bromet, Evelyn J.
A1  - Carlson, Gabrielle A.
A1  - Klein, Daniel N.
SP  - ePub
EP  - ePub
VL  - ePub
IS  - ePub
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 0009-3920
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/cdev.12691
ID  - ref1
ER  -