Neutral face distractors differentiate performance between depressed and healthy adolescents during an emotional working memory task

European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Volumn 23, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 659-667

  Tavitian, Lucy R ^a   Ladouceur, Cecile D ^b   Nahas, Ziad ^c   Khater, Beatrice ^c   Brent, David A ^b   Maalouf, Fadi T ^b,c  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

Adolescent; Attentional control; Depression; Emotion processing; Emotional distracters

Indexed keywords

SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR;

ACCURACY; ADOLESCENT; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERACTIVITY; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; OPPOSITIONAL DEFIANT DISORDER; PSYCHOPHARMACOTHERAPY; REACTION TIME; SUICIDAL IDEATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKING MEMORY;

ADOLESCENT; ATTENTION; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; EMOTIONS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; REACTION TIME;

EID: 84906789989     PISSN: 10188827     EISSN: 1435165X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00787-013-0492-9     Document Type: Article

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