Disruptions in autobiographical memory processing in depression and the emergence of memory therapeutics

Trends in Cognitive Sciences

Volumn 18, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 596-604

  Dalgleish, Tim ^a   Werner Seidler, Aliza ^a  

^a MRC COGNITION AND BRAIN SCIENCES UNIT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Autobiographical memory; Depression; Method of loci; Overgeneral memory bias; Suppression

Indexed keywords

AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL MEMORY; DEPRESSION; MEMORY BIAS; METHOD-OF-LOCI; SUPPRESSION;

AFFECTIVE EXECUTIVE TRAINING; AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL MEMORY; DEPRESSION; EMOTIONALITY; HUMAN; MEMORY SPECIFICITY TRAINING; REVIEW; THERAPY; COGNITIVE THERAPY; COMPLICATION; EPISODIC MEMORY; MEMORY DISORDERS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; RECALL;

COGNITIVE THERAPY; DEPRESSION; HUMANS; MEMORY DISORDERS; MEMORY, EPISODIC; MENTAL RECALL;

EID: 84908469505     PISSN: 13646613     EISSN: 1879307X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2014.06.010     Document Type: Review

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