Cognitive vulnerability and frontal brain asymmetry: common predictors of first prospective depressive episode.

ABSTRACT: The hopelessness theory of depression proposes that individuals with a depressogenic cognitive style are more likely to become hopeless and experience depression following negative life events. Although the neurophysiological underpinnings of cognitive style remain speculative, research indicates that decreased relative left frontal brain electrical activity holds promise as a traitlike marker of depression. This begs the question: Do measures of depressogenic cognitive style and resting frontal brain asymmetry index a common vulnerability? The present study provides preliminary support for this hypothesis. At baseline assessment, increased cognitive vulnerability to depression was associated with decreased relative left frontal brain activity at rest in individuals with no prior history o

SUBMITTER: Nusslock R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3130533 | biostudies-literature | 2011 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature