Abnormal prefrontal activity subserving attentional control of emotion in remitted depressed patients during a working memory task with emotional distracters

Psychological Medicine

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 29-40

  Kerestes, R ^a,b   Ladouceur, C D ^c   Meda, S ^d   Nathan, P J ^b,e   Blumberg, H P ^a   Maloney, K ^a   Ruf, B ^a   Saricicek, A ^a   Pearlson, G D ^a,d   Bhagwagar, Z ^a,f   Phillips, M L ^c,g  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d INSTITUTE OF LIVING   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^f BRISTOL MYERS SQUIBB   (United States)

^g CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Depression; emotional processing; functional magnetic resonance imaging; prefrontal cortex; working memory

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BASAL GANGLION; BLOOD; BRAIN MAPPING; CASE CONTROL STUDY; EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REACTION TIME; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SHORT TERM MEMORY;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; BASAL GANGLIA; BRAIN MAPPING; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; EMOTIONS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; OXYGEN; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REACTION TIME; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 82555194493     PISSN: 00332917     EISSN: 14698978     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0033291711001097     Document Type: Article

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