The effects of attention retraining on depressive mood and cortisol responses to depression-related stimuli

Japanese Psychological Research

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 400-411

  Tsumura, Hideki ^a   Shimada, Hironori ^a   Nomura, Kazutaka ^a   Sugaya, Nagisa ^b   Suzuki, Katsuhiko ^a  

^a WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Attention retraining; Attentional bias; Cortisol; Depressive mood; Dot probe task

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867618638     PISSN: 00215368     EISSN: 14685884     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-5884.2012.00523.x     Document Type: Article

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