Cognitive rigidity in unipolar depression and obsessive compulsive disorder: Examination of task switching, Stroop, working memory updating and post-conflict adaptation

Psychiatry Research

Volumn 185, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 149-156

  Meiran, Nachshon ^a   Diamond, Gary M ^a   Toder, Doron ^b   Nemets, Boris ^b  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b MENTAL HEALTH CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Basal ganglia; Executive functions; Post conflict adaptation; Reaction time; Rumination

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; POSITIVE FEEDBACK; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKING MEMORY;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; COGNITION DISORDERS; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); CUES; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME;

EID: 78650196164     PISSN: 01651781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psychres.2010.04.044     Document Type: Article

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