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Psychol Med ; 41(12): 2515-25, 2011 Dec.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-21733223

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BACKGROUND: Depressed patients are biased in their response to negative information. They have been found to show a maladaptive behavioral and aberrant electrophysiological response to negative feedback. The aim of this study was to investigate the behavioral and electrophysiological response to feedback validity in drug-free depressed patients. METHOD: Fifteen drug-free in-patients with unipolar major depression disorder (MDD) and 30 demographically matched controls performed a time-estimation task in which they received valid and invalid (i.e. related and unrelated to performance) positive and negative feedback. The number of behavioral adjustments to the feedback and the feedback-related negativity (FRN) were measured. RESULTS: Patients made fewer correct adjustments after valid negative feedback than controls, and their FRNs were larger. Neither patients nor controls adjusted their time estimates following invalid negative feedback. CONCLUSIONS: The FRN results suggest that depressed drug-free in-patients have an atypical rostral anterior cingulate response to feedback that is independent of feedback validity. Their behavioral response to invalid negative feedback, however, is not impaired. This study confirms the notion that the behavioral responses of depressed individuals to negative feedback are context dependent.


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Encéfalo/fisiopatologia , Transtorno Depressivo Maior/fisiopatologia , Retroalimentação Psicológica/fisiologia , Adulto , Idoso , Estudos de Casos e Controles , Eletroencefalografia , Potenciais Evocados/fisiologia , Feminino , Humanos , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade
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J Psychopharmacol ; 24(10): 1455-63, 2010 Oct.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-19304860

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In the present study, the effects of transiently lowering central serotonin levels by means of acute tryptophan depletion on measures of cognitive flexibility were examined. Flexible behaviour was measured in an Eriksen flanker task, and cardiac and electro-cortical responses to errors and congruent and incongruent stimuli were measured. The depletion was successful in lowering tryptophan levels and, as expected, it did not affect subjective mood. Depletion did not affect performance and electro-cortical measures and selectively affected cardiac measures. Depletion attenuated cardiac slowing to incongruent flanker stimuli but did not affect cardiac responses to congruent stimuli and errors. The selective effect on cardiac responses as compared to performance and electro-cortical measures was in accordance with earlier findings, as well as the attenuation of cardiac slowing. The selective effect on the cardiac response to incongruent stimuli was unexpected. Detailed analyses showed a close connection to the earlier reported attenuation of the cardiac response to negative feedback, and the effect is explained in terms of reduced anticipation of the feedback stimulus due to enhanced punishment prediction.


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Deficiências Nutricionais/fisiopatologia , Frequência Cardíaca/fisiologia , Triptofano/deficiência , Adulto , Cognição/fisiologia , Estudos Cross-Over , Deficiências Nutricionais/sangue , Método Duplo-Cego , Potenciais Evocados/fisiologia , Retroalimentação Psicológica , Humanos , Masculino , Plasticidade Neuronal/fisiologia , Testes Neuropsicológicos , Reconhecimento Visual de Modelos , Serotonina/fisiologia , Análise e Desempenho de Tarefas , Triptofano/administração & dosagem , Triptofano/sangue , Adulto Jovem
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