Project

The role of attentional mechanism and cognitive control in depression: an experimental investigation of underlying neurobiological working mechanisms

Code
01J08107
Duration
01 January 2007 → 31 October 2009
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Research disciplines
  • Social sciences
    • Psychophysiology
    • Psychopathology
    • Motivation and emotion
  • Medical and health sciences
    • Biological psychiatry
Keywords
attention depression ERP rTMS
 
Project description

Recent neuro-cognitive research has related mood disorders to a deficit in strategic attentional processes within a frontocortical-subcortical network. The aim of this project is to explore these prefrontal attentional problems through rTMS and ERP during experimental attention paradigms, to investigate the functional relation between cognitive control and clinical symptomatology.