Children's shyness and frontal brain maturation

Although shyness is a ubiquitous phenomenon and long viewed as a maladaptive characteristic, we know relatively little about the possible brain mechanism(s) underlying and maintaining shyness. Using a prospective longitudinal study, we examined frontal brain maturation in shy children. We collected measures of resting regional EEG spectral power approximately every six months for two years in young school-age children and characterized frontal …