Why the study?
Autonomic hyperarousal has been proposed as a dispositional risk factor for anxiety disorders, prompting investigation into physiological arousal in offspring of parents with and without anxiety disorders and its link to fearful temperament.
Parental anxiety disorders predict infant autonomic hyperarousal, which serves as a dispositional risk factor for later fearful temperament.
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May flag early autonomic risk in AD offspring; hypothesis-generating for prevention trials before clinical adoption.
Vente et al. (2020) studied this question.
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