Attention Disturbance in Clinical Depression: Deficient Distractor Inhibition or Processing Resource Deficit?

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Volumn 184, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 114-121

  Lemelin, Sophie ^a,b   Baruch, Philippe ^a   Vincent, Annick ^a   Laplante, Louis ^a   Everett, James ^a   Vincent, Pierre ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; REACTION TIME;

ADULT; AGED; ATTENTION; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; COGNITION DISORDERS; COLOR PERCEPTION; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 0029878682     PISSN: 00223018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005053-199602000-00010     Document Type: Article

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