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| Title |
Cortical thickness and emotion processing in young adults with mild to moderate depression: a preliminary study
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| Published in |
BMC Psychiatry, February 2016
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| DOI | 10.1186/s12888-016-0750-8 |
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| Authors |
Bernice A. Fonseka, Natalia Jaworska, Allegra Courtright, Frank P. MacMaster, Glenda M. MacQueen |
| Abstract |
Major depressive disorder (MDD) is a multifaceted illness involving cognitive, emotional, and structural brain changes; illness onset typically occurs in adolescence or young adulthood. Cortical thickness modulations may underlie, or accompany, functional brain activity changes in the prefrontal cortex (PFC) during emotional processing that tend to be observed in MDD. Thirteen unmedicated young adults with mild to moderate MDD, aged 18-24, completed a facial expression Go/No Go task and underwent a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan to assess cortical thickness. Cortical thickness and performance on the Go/No Go task was also assessed in age-matched healthy comparison subjects (HCs; N = 14). Participants with depression had thicker left pars opercularis cortices than HCs. They also exhibited impaired response inhibition to neutral faces when responding only to sad faces, and a faster response time overall. Though our sample size is limited, this pilot study nevertheless provides evidence for cortical thickening in left frontal brain regions in a non-severely depressed, young adult group compared to healthy controls. There was also evidence of disturbances in emotion processing in this group. |
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The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 64 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Brazil | 1 | 2% |
| Unknown | 63 | 98% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 12 | 19% |
| Student > Master | 11 | 17% |
| Researcher | 7 | 11% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 6 | 9% |
| Student > Bachelor | 5 | 8% |
| Other | 6 | 9% |
| Unknown | 17 | 27% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Psychology | 16 | 25% |
| Neuroscience | 12 | 19% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 7 | 11% |
| Sports and Recreations | 2 | 3% |
| Linguistics | 1 | 2% |
| Other | 5 | 8% |
| Unknown | 21 | 33% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 18. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 01 March 2017.
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