Stopped: The study was terminated because of the COVID-19 pandemic (Study halted prematurely and will not resume; participants are no longer being examined or receiving intervention).
During adolescence, youth undergo rapid developmental change and in some cases experience increases in worries and fearfulness, although the mechanisms that underlie this change are unclear. Previous studies indicate that heightened Attentional Bias (AB) toward threat-related cues may increase fearfulness, and it may be possible to change AB using a computerized, Attention Bias Modification task (ABM). This study will recruit healthy youth with elevated anxious symptoms to index attentional tendencies toward threat-related stimuli using cutting-edge techniques, and to test the effect of a computerized attention training task in altering attention to threatening cues. The investigators will also examine the role of ABM in changing youth's attention-related resting-state functional connectivity (rsFC), a neural marker of at-rest cognition.
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Change from baseline in parent-reported anxious symptoms at 3 weeks follow-up
Timeframe: 3 weeks from baseline (after completing the 3rd weekly training session)
Change from baseline in parent-reported anxious symptoms at 6 weeks follow-up
Timeframe: 6 weeks from baseline (after completing the 6th weekly training session)
Change from baseline in youth self-reported anxious symptoms at 3 weeks follow-up
Timeframe: 3 weeks from baseline (after completing the 3rd weekly training session)
Change from baseline in youth self-reported anxious symptoms at 6 weeks follow-up
Timeframe: 6 weeks from baseline (after completing the 6th weekly training session)