Hurricane Sandy Exposure Alters the Development of Neural Reactivity to Negative Stimuli in Children

Ellen M. Kessel; Brady D. Nelson; Autumn Kujawa; Greg Hajcak; Roman Kotov; Evelyn J. Bromet; Gabrielle A. Carlson; Daniel N. Klein

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Hurricane Sandy Exposure Alters the Development of Neural Reactivity to Negative Stimuli in Children

Ellen M. Kessel, Brady D. Nelson, Autumn Kujawa, Greg Hajcak, Roman Kotov, Evelyn J. Bromet, Gabrielle A. Carlson, Daniel N. Klein

Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health

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This study examined whether exposure to Hurricane Sandy-related stressors altered children's brain response to emotional information. An average of 8 months (M_age = 9.19) before and 9 months after (M_age = 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. Results provide compelling evidence that exposure to natural disaster-related stressors alters neural emotional reactivity to negatively valenced information.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	339-348
Number of pages	10
Journal	Child development
Volume	89
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.12691
State	Published - Mar 1 2018

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Pediatrics, Perinatology, and Child Health
Education
Developmental and Educational Psychology

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