Childhood Electroencephalographic Signatures Predict Distinct Developmental Trajectories to Adolescent Anxiety and Depression (IMAGE)
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A longitudinal study in Biological Psychiatry identified distinct brain-wave patterns emerging from age 9 onwards that can forecast a child’s vulnerability to anxiety or depression by age 13. This schematic illustrates the seven-year journey from childhood to adolescence. At age 7, the brain's electrophysiological signatures for future emotional health are entangled and undifferentiated (left). A critical neurodevelopmental shift occurs at age 9, when dissociable EEG networks emerge: alpha-band networks (red path) specifically predict the trajectory toward adolescent anxiety, while beta-1-band networks (blue path) predict the trajectory toward depression.
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Biological Psychiatry / Deng et al.
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