Unimpaired automatic processing of verbal information in the course of clinical depression

Depression and Anxiety

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 325-330

  Dannlowski, Udo ^a   Kersting, Anette ^a   Arolt, Volker ^a   Lalee Mentzel, Judith ^a   Donges, Uta Susan ^a   Suslow, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Associative network; Major depression; Semantic priming; Spreading activation

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; CITALOPRAM; MIRTAZAPINE; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR;

ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTELLIGENCE; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTIC PRIMING TASK; SEMANTICS; STIMULUS GENERALIZATION; STIMULUS ONSET ASYNCHRONY; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

ADULT; ANXIETY DISORDERS; ASSOCIATION; AUTOMATISM; DEMOGRAPHY; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL PROCESSES; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 33750366490     PISSN: 10914269     EISSN: 15206394     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/da.20173     Document Type: Article

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