“We know that inhibited children are more likely to have anxiety disorders later, particularly social anxiety, that begins in late childhood to adolescence,” Tang said. However, not all inhibited children develop anxiety or depression,” Tang said. “This study is new because it can separate different kinds of brain correlates for these different conditions,” she said. There are already interventions for socially anxious and behaviorally inhibited children that improve social and cognitive skills, Tang said. Anxiety and depression are complex conditions that could be set off by a multitude of factors — genetic, environmental and others, Tang said.