Cognitive behavioral therapy for depression changes medial prefrontal and ventral anterior cingulate cortex activity associated with self-referential processing

Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 487-493

  Yoshimura, Shinpei ^a,b   Okamoto, Yasumasa ^a,b   Onoda, Keiichi ^c   Matsunaga, Miki ^a   Okada, Go ^a   Kunisato, Yoshihiko ^d   Yoshino, Atsuo ^a   Ueda, Kazutaka ^e   Suzuki, Shin ichi ^d   Yamawaki, Shigeto ^a,b  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c SHIMANE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cognitive behavioral therapy; Depression; Emotion; fMRI; Self referential processing

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BLOOD; CINGULATE GYRUS; COGNITIVE THERAPY; DECISION MAKING; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; SELF REPORT; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULARIZATION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; COGNITIVE THERAPY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GYRUS CINGULI; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; JUDGMENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OXYGEN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; SELF REPORT; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84898810995     PISSN: 17495016     EISSN: 17495024     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/scan/nst009     Document Type: Article

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