1. Attention Improves After Clinical Improvement in Acutely Depressed Adolescents
- Author
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Yuval Bloch, Liron Rabany, Hila Z. Gvirts, Garry Walter, Yoram Braw, and Shai Aviram
- Subjects
Male ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Time Factors ,Adolescent ,Neuropsychological Tests ,medicine ,Humans ,Longitudinal Studies ,Reactivity (psychology) ,Psychiatry ,Depression (differential diagnoses) ,Psychiatric Status Rating Scales ,Depression ,Working memory ,Executive functions ,Psychiatry and Mental health ,Memory, Short-Term ,Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity ,State dependent ,Disease Progression ,Trait ,Female ,Neurology (clinical) ,Cognition Disorders ,Psychology ,Clinical psychology - Abstract
In recently depressed adolescents, attention and emotional reactivity improved significantly compared with baseline. Working memory did not improve. This supports the position that, in adolescent depression, attention is state dependent compared with other executive functions that are trait dependent.
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- 2015