Project

A cognitive-neuroscience approach to resilience and depression: The processing of positive information

Code
01G01410
Duration
01 January 2010 → 31 October 2016
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Research disciplines
  • Social sciences
    • Neuroimaging
    • Psychophysiology
    • Motivation and emotion
  • Medical and health sciences
    • Biological psychiatry
    • Cognitive neuroscience
Keywords
affectieve neuroscience fMRI depression resilience ERP cognitive control
 
Project description

The aim of the project is to investigate the influence of positive emotions on resilience in remitted depressed people within a cognitive-neuroscience perspective, using experimental paradigms, Event related Potentials to examine the spatio-temporal dynamics of conflict detection and recruitment of cognitive control on encounter of emotional information, and fMRI to map neural networks involved in the regulation of emottions.