Blunted Reward Processing in Remitted Melancholic Depression

Clinical Psychological Science

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 14-25

  Weinberg, Anna ^a   Shankman, Stewart A ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

depression; melancholia; reward processing; vulnerability

Indexed keywords

EID: 85009275189     PISSN: 21677026     EISSN: 21677034     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/2167702616633158     Document Type: Article

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