Hyporeactivity of ventral striatum towards incentive stimuli in unmedicated depressed patients normalizes after treatment with escitalopram

Journal of Psychopharmacology

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 677-688

  Stoy, Meline ^a   Schlagenhauf, Florian ^a   Sterzer, Philipp ^a   Bermpohl, Felix ^a   Hägele, Claudia ^a   Suchotzki, Kristina ^a   Schmack, Katharina ^a   Wrase, Jana ^a   Ricken, Roland ^a   Knutson, Brian ^b   Adli, Mazda ^a   Bauer, Michael ^c   Heinz, Andreas ^a   Ströhle, Andreas ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anticipation; fMRI; loss; reward; SSRI; unipolar depression; ventral striatum

Indexed keywords

ESCITALOPRAM;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BECK DEPRESSION INVENTORY; BOLD SIGNAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HAMILTON SCALE; HUMAN; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS, SECOND-GENERATION; BASAL GANGLIA; CITALOPRAM; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MOTIVATION; NEUROIMAGING; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITORS;

EID: 84861832626     PISSN: 02698811     EISSN: 14617285     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0269881111416686     Document Type: Article

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