Linking major depression and the neural substrates of associative processing

Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 1017-1026

  Harel, Eiran Vadim ^a   Tennyson, Robert Langley ^b   Fava, Maurizio ^c   Bar, Moshe ^d  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Associations; Context; Depression; Entorhinal; Parahippocampus; Rumination

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ASSOCIATION; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; NERVE TRACT; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORGAN SIZE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL INTERVIEW; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; PSYCHOLOGY; SELF REPORT; VISION;

ADULT; ASSOCIATION; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEW, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; ORGAN SIZE; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; SELF REPORT; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84983430394     PISSN: 15307026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13415-016-0449-9     Document Type: Article

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