Electrical brain imaging reveals the expression and timing of altered error monitoring functions in major depression

Journal of Abnormal Psychology

Volumn 122, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 939-950

  Aarts, Kristien ^a   Vanderhasselt, Marie Anne ^a   Otte, Georges ^b   Baeken, Chris ^a   Pourtois, Gilles ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b Psychiatric Centre Dr Guislain   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Action monitoring; Error positivity (Pe); Error related negativity (ERN); Major depression

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ERROR MONITORING; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL ERROR POSITIVITY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL ERROR RELATED NEGATIVITY; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; MEDIAL FRONTAL CORTEX; NEUROIMAGING; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COLOR PERCEPTION; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 84890943303     PISSN: 0021843X     EISSN: 19391846     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0034616     Document Type: Article

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