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• Overview
• Childhood Risk Study
• Youth Emotion Project
• Emotion Regulation in Anxiety Disorders
• Neural Mediators of Behavior Therapy for Social Anxiety Disorder
• Internet Skills-Based Program for Child Anxiety
• Exposure Strategies
• Irritable Bowel Syndrome
• CALM Primary Care Study
• NASA Stress Management Study

Childhood Risk Study

The UCLA Anxiety Disorders Behavioral Research Program has completed an NIMH funded investigation of factors that may place children in the age range of 7 to 12 years at risk for anxiety disorders. Various psychophysiological recordings are conducted with children who currently experience anxiety, compared to children whose parents experience anxiety but who themselves are not experiencing anxiety, and compared to nonanxious children of nonanxious parents. This investigation is designed to identify biases in attention, startle blink responding, and acquisition and extinction of aversive associations that may place children at risk for anxiety disorders and inform of ways for eventually offsetting that risk. Another investigation is underway that is designed to establish risk factors that differentiate between boys and girls.

For further information about this project, contact Betty Liao, BA. (betty08@.ucla.edu) [check this email and spelling of Betty’s last name]

This study is conducted in collaboration with Lindsey Bergman, Ph.D. and Edward Ornitz, M.D., UCLA Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences.

Principal Investigator: Michelle G. Craske, Ph.D.
NIMH 1 R03 MH64815-01A1