The neural correlates of emotional face-processing in adolescent depression: A dimensional approach focusing on anhedonia and illness severity

Psychiatry Research - Neuroimaging

Volumn 224, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 234-241

  Henderson, Sarah E ^a   Vallejo, Ana I ^a   Ely, Benjamin A ^a   Kang, Guoxin ^b   Krain Roy, Amy ^c   Pine, Daniel S ^d   Stern, Emily R ^a   Gabbay, Vilma ^a,e  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^c FORDHAM UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^e NATHAN S KLINE INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHIATRIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescents; Anhedonia; Depression; Emotion perception; Faces; fMRI

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ANHEDONIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CINGULATE GYRUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HAPPINESS; HUMAN; INSULA; LIMBIC CORTEX; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; NERVE POTENTIAL; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POST HOC ANALYSIS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUTAMEN; SADNESS; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS; ADULT; BRAIN CORTEX; CHILD; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANHEDONIA; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CHILD; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; EMOTIONS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84922363551     PISSN: 09254927     EISSN: 18727506     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pscychresns.2014.09.006     Document Type: Article

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