A randomized, controlled pilot trial of the Emotional Faces Memory Task: a digital therapeutic for depression

npj Digital Medicine

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2018, Pages

  Iacoviello, Brian M ^a,b   Murrough, James W ^b   Hoch, Megan M ^b   Huryk, Kathryn M ^b   Collins, Katherine A ^b   Cutter, Gary R ^c   Iosifescu, Dan V ^b,d,e   Charney, Dennis S ^b  

^a Click Therapeutics Inc ^*  (United States)

^b MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^d NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

% REDUCTIONS; 'CURRENT; ACTIVE CONTROL; COGNITIVE CONTROL; CONDITION; EMOTIONAL INFORMATION; MEMORY TRAINING; STUDY DESIGN; TRAINING INTERVENTION; WORKING MEMORY;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; COGNITIVE THERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED THERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMOTIONAL FACES MEMORY TASK; FEMALE; HAMILTON DEPRESSION RATING SCALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 85089606117     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23986352     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/s41746-018-0025-5     Document Type: Article

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