{"id":224077,"date":"2025-10-26T22:17:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T03:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/combining-two-brain-scans-uncovers-hidden-clues-to-future-teen-anxiety"},"modified":"2025-10-26T22:17:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T03:17:13","slug":"combining-two-brain-scans-uncovers-hidden-clues-to-future-teen-anxiety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/combining-two-brain-scans-uncovers-hidden-clues-to-future-teen-anxiety","title":{"rendered":"Combining two brain scans uncovers hidden clues to future teen anxiety"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/combining-two-brain-scans-uncovers-hidden-clues-to-future-teen-anxiety.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When you\u2019re a teenager, it\u2019s easy to feel like the world is watching your every mistake. For some kids, that sense of self\u2010consciousness fades as they grow up. For others, it deepens into full\u2010blown anxiety.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/jamanetwork.com\/journals\/jamanetworkopen\/fullarticle\/2840488\" target=\"_blank\">new study<\/a> led by researchers at the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences may help explain why\u2014and could eventually make it easier to spot teens most at risk before anxiety takes hold.<\/p>\n<p>The research, published in <i>JAMA Network Open<\/i>, found that combining two kinds of brain scans can better predict which teens are likely to experience greater anxiety as they get older. The work sheds new light on how the <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/adolescent+brain\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">adolescent brain<\/a> responds to mistakes and why those responses vary from person to person.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you\u2019re a teenager, it\u2019s easy to feel like the world is watching your every mistake. For some kids, that sense of self\u2010consciousness fades as they grow up. For others, it deepens into full\u2010blown anxiety. A new study led by researchers at the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences may help explain why\u2014and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224077\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}