APS
30th APS Annual Convention · 2018
Early Life Stress Is Associated with Amygdala Hyporeactivity to Subliminal Negative Emotion Faces in Early Adolescence
- Jonas Miller
Stanford University - Tiffany Ho
Stanford University - Lucy King
Stanford University - Natalie Colich
Stanford University - Lara Foland-Ross
Stanford University School of Medicine - Ian Gotlib
Stanford University
Abstract
Research on early life stress (ELS) and brain functioning has only used supraliminal emotional stimuli. We found that severity of ELS predicted amygdala hyporeactivity in response to subliminal negative faces in adolescence. Future research should test whether blunted automatic processing of negative emotion is a healthy, compensatory response to ELS.
Stress
