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Psychol Med ; 42(1): 29-40, 2012 Jan.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-21733287

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BACKGROUND: Patients with major depressive disorder (MDD) show deficits in processing of facial emotions that persist beyond recovery and cessation of treatment. Abnormalities in neural areas supporting attentional control and emotion processing in remitted depressed (rMDD) patients suggests that there may be enduring, trait-like abnormalities in key neural circuits at the interface of cognition and emotion, but this issue has not been studied systematically. METHOD: Nineteen euthymic, medication-free rMDD patients (mean age 33.6 years; mean duration of illness 34 months) and 20 age- and gender-matched healthy controls (HC; mean age 35.8 years) performed the Emotional Face N-Back (EFNBACK) task, a working memory task with emotional distracter stimuli. We used blood oxygen level-dependent (BOLD) functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to measure neural activity in the dorsolateral (DLPFC) and ventrolateral prefrontal cortex (VLPFC), orbitofrontal cortex (OFC), ventral striatum and amygdala, using a region of interest (ROI) approach in SPM2. RESULTS: rMDD patients exhibited significantly greater activity relative to HC in the left DLPFC [Brodmann area (BA) 9/46] in response to negative emotional distracters during high working memory load. By contrast, rMDD patients exhibited significantly lower activity in the right DLPFC and left VLPFC compared to HC in response to positive emotional distracters during high working memory load. These effects occurred during accurate task performance. CONCLUSIONS: Remitted depressed patients may continue to exhibit attentional biases toward negative emotional information, reflected by greater recruitment of prefrontal regions implicated in attentional control in the context of negative emotional information.


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Atenção/fisiologia , Transtorno Depressivo Maior/fisiopatologia , Emoções/fisiologia , Memória de Curto Prazo/fisiologia , Córtex Pré-Frontal/fisiopatologia , Adulto , Análise de Variância , Gânglios da Base/fisiopatologia , Mapeamento Encefálico , Estudos de Casos e Controles , Transtorno Depressivo Maior/psicologia , Expressão Facial , Feminino , Lateralidade Funcional , Humanos , Imageamento por Ressonância Magnética/métodos , Masculino , Oxigênio/sangue , Estimulação Luminosa/métodos , Tempo de Reação , Análise de Regressão
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