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

Promotor

Rudi De Raedt

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.