Overview
TRAIN was a NIMH-funded study on 11- to 14-year-olds, that was conducted at FSU and San Diego State University. The study involved measuring brain activity and following the adolescents over two years. Many participants will do ‘brain training’ games at home, and we’re examining whether this training alters brain activity associated with anxiety risk. We were looking to get 300 adolescents enrolled in Tallahassee.
For the TRAIN project, we are focusing on EEG-based measures of how the brain responds to making mistakes – a distinct neural response called the error-related negativity, or ERN. It’s the electrical activity recorded when people make mistakes. We, and other researchers, have found that ERN is larger among adults with anxiety disorders. And as we have studied younger and younger people, the results suggest that an increased ERN can also be a reliable predictor of anxiety.
In the TRAIN study, the focus is on whether the ERN predicts increases in anxiety in adolescence, and whether attention training can reduce the ERN and risk for anxiety. Some of the participants in the TRAIN study will be randomized to complete 16 “sessions” of computerized trainings intended to increase the ability to disengage from threat. That type of attentional training has been shown to reduce anxiety – and the TRAIN project is designed to determine whether it may work by reducing how reactive the brain is to detecting its own mistakes.
For more information visit:
TRAIN on Facebook
Or contact us directly at:
[email protected]
(850)644-9869 or (850) 320-7087
TRAIN Study Site
For the TRAIN project, we are focusing on EEG-based measures of how the brain responds to making mistakes – a distinct neural response called the error-related negativity, or ERN. It’s the electrical activity recorded when people make mistakes. We, and other researchers, have found that ERN is larger among adults with anxiety disorders. And as we have studied younger and younger people, the results suggest that an increased ERN can also be a reliable predictor of anxiety.
In the TRAIN study, the focus is on whether the ERN predicts increases in anxiety in adolescence, and whether attention training can reduce the ERN and risk for anxiety. Some of the participants in the TRAIN study will be randomized to complete 16 “sessions” of computerized trainings intended to increase the ability to disengage from threat. That type of attentional training has been shown to reduce anxiety – and the TRAIN project is designed to determine whether it may work by reducing how reactive the brain is to detecting its own mistakes.
For more information visit:
TRAIN on Facebook
Or contact us directly at:
[email protected]
(850)644-9869 or (850) 320-7087
TRAIN Study Site
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