Mother-Adolescent Neural Concordance in Response to Distress is Related to Greater Mother-Adolescent Concordance of Perceived Adolescent Anxiety

•Mother-child affective attunement is important for adolescent emotional development•Mother-adolescent dyads viewed clips of comforting interactions during fMRI•Mother-adolescent dyads rated adolescent affective symptom severity•Mother-adolescent brain concordance related to adolescent anxiety rating agreement•Neural similarity may help mothers and adolescents attune to one another