Prefrontal dysfunction in depressed patients performing a complex planning task: A study using positron emission tomography

Psychological Medicine

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 931-942

  Elliott, R ^a   Baker, S C ^b   Rogers, R D ^b   O'Leary, D A ^b   Paykel, E S ^b   Frith, C D ^b   Dolan, R J ^b   Sahakian, B J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMITRIPTYLINE; CITALOPRAM; DOSULEPIN; IMIPRAMINE; LITHIUM; MOCLOBEMIDE; PAROXETINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; CINGULATE GYRUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; PLANNING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; TASK PERFORMANCE; THALAMUS;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; CORPUS STRIATUM; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; GYRUS CINGULI; HUMANS; INTERVENTION STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PROBLEM SOLVING; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED; VOLITION;

EID: 0030800191     PISSN: 00332917     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0033291797005187     Document Type: Article

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