Attenuated prefrontal activation during a verbal fluency task in remitted major depression: Short Communication

Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 423-425

  Okada, Go ^a   Okamoto, Yasumasa ^a   Yamashita, Hidehisa ^a   Ueda, Kazutaka ^b   Takami, Hiroshi ^c   Yamawaki, Shigeto ^a  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c Kamo Psychiatry Medical Center   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anterior cingulate cortex; Depression; Magnetic resonance imaging; Prefrontal cortex; Remission

Indexed keywords

AMOXAPINE; CLOMIPRAMINE; FLUVOXAMINE; PAROXETINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CIRCULATION; CINGULATE GYRUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; OXYGEN BLOOD LEVEL; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REMISSION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

ADULT; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 65649113285     PISSN: 13231316     EISSN: 14401819     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1819.2009.01952.x     Document Type: Article

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