Effects of acute cortisol administration on response inhibition in patients with major depression and healthy controls

Psychiatry Research

Volumn 209, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 439-446

  Schlosser, Nicole ^a   Wolf, Oliver Tobias ^b   Fernando, Silvia Carvalho ^a   Terfehr, Kirsten ^c   Otte, Christian ^c,d   Spitzer, Carsten ^c   Beblo, Thomas ^a   Driessen, Martin ^a,e   Löwe, Bernd ^c   Wingenfeld, Katja ^c,d  

^a EVANGELISCHES KRANKENHAUS   (Germany)

^b RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^d CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^e Luebeck School of Medicine   (Germany)

Author keywords

Go no go; Human; Hypothalamus pituitary adrenal axis; Major depressive disorder; Prefrontal cortex

Indexed keywords

GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; HYDROCORTISONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTIONALITY; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; MENTAL TASK; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE INHIBITION; RESPONSE TIME; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

GO/NO-GO; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS-PITUITARY-ADRENAL AXIS; MAJOR DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; PREFRONTAL CORTEX;

ADULT; COGNITION DISORDERS; DECISION MAKING; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); INPATIENTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SALIVA; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84885474833     PISSN: 01651781     EISSN: 18727123     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psychres.2012.12.019     Document Type: Article

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