A Controlled Study of Behavioral Inhibition in Children of Parents With Panic Disorder and Depression

• Published in: The American journal of psychiatry Vol. 157; no. 12; pp. 2002 - 2010
• Main Authors: Rosenbaum, Jerrold F., Biederman, Joseph, Hirshfeld-Becker, Dina R., Kagan, Jerome, Snidman, Nancy, Friedman, Deborah, Nineberg, Allan, Gallery, Daniel J., Faraone, Stephen V.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Washington, DC American Psychiatric Publishing 01.12.2000; American Psychiatric Association
• Subjects: Adult; Anxiety; Anxiety disorders; Anxiety Disorders - epidemiology; Behavior; Biological and medical sciences; Child; Child Behavior - classification; Child clinical studies; Child of Impaired Parents - classification; Child, Preschool; Children; Children & youth; Comorbidity; Confidence Intervals; Depression; Depressive Disorder - epidemiology; Disease Susceptibility; Factor Analysis, Statistical; Female; Humans; Inhibition; Inhibition (Psychology); Male; Medical sciences; Mental depression; Mental disorders; Odds Ratio; Panic Disorder - epidemiology; Panic disorders; Parents; Parents & parenting; Parents - psychology; Psychiatric Status Rating Scales - statistics & numerical data; Psychiatry; Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry; Psychopathology. Psychiatry; Replication studies; Risk Factors; Human; Mood disorder; Preschool age; Panic; Family study; Parent; Anxiety disorder; Prediction; Depression; Concomitant disease; Individual behavior; Familiarity strangeness; Risk factor; Inhibition; Child; Comparative study

OBJECTIVE: "Behavioral inhibition to the unfamiliar" has been proposed as a precursor to anxiety disorders. Children with behavioral inhibition are cautious, quiet, introverted, and shy in unfamiliar situations. Several lines of evidence suggest that behavioral inhibition is an index of an...