Selective attention in depression: Influence of emotionality and personal relevance

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Volumn 199, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 696-702

  Schlosser, Nicole ^a   Mensebach, Christoph ^b   Rullkötter, Nina ^a   Schaffrath, Camille ^c   Driessen, Martin ^a,c,d   Beblo, Thomas ^a   Wingenfeld, Katja ^e  

^a EVANGELISCHES KRANKENHAUS   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

^c BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d Luebeck School of Medicine   (Germany)

^e CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

emotional Stroop task; habituation; human; interference; Major depression

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; BECK DEPRESSION INVENTORY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMOTIONALITY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; HABITUATION; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; LIFE EVENT; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; PERSONAL RELEVANCE; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; REACTION TIME; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; SELF CONCEPT; SELF-RATING DEPRESSION SCALE; STROOP TEST; STRUCTURED CLINICAL INTERVIEW FOR DSM DISORDERS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HABITUATION, PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRES; REACTION TIME; STROOP TEST;

EID: 80052511376     PISSN: 00223018     EISSN: 1539736X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/NMD.0b013e318229d6cf     Document Type: Article

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