Susan Rivera's research highlighted in ScienMag
Anxiety occurs at high rates in children with fragile X syndrome (FXS), the most common form of inherited intellectual disability. Children with co-occurring anxiety tend to fare worse, but it can be hard to identify in infants. A new study led by Professor Susan Rivera found that, unlike typically developing children, infants and children with FXS tend to focus more on angry faces than happy ones. A bias toward threatening emotion is a pattern highly linked with anxiety.
Read more about the new work by Rivera, former graduate student Jessica Burris and colleagues.
- “Children With Fragile X Syndrome Have A Bias Toward Threatening Emotion,” ScienMag, Aug. 23, 2017
- “Anxiety and Children with Fragile X Syndrome,” Egghead (UC Davis research blog), Oct. 4, 2017