Project

Cognitive vulnerability to recurrent depression and the default mode network: a cognitive neuroscience investigation

Code
01J06110
Duration
01 May 2010 → 28 February 2015
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Research disciplines
  • Social sciences
    • Psychophysiology
    • Psychopathology
    • Motivation and emotion
Keywords
depression cognitive neuroscience
 
Project description

A substantial proportion of remitted depressed individuals will experience the recurrence of depressive episodes. It is thought that depressive episodes are associated with a decline in cognitive control that causes emotion regulation impairments. This hypothesis is investigated using cognitive neuroscience methodology examining functional connectivity of cognition and emotion interactions in the brain in resting state.