Psychological, endocrine and neural responses to social evaluation in subclinical depression.

ABSTRACT: This study aimed to identify vulnerability patterns in psychological, physiological and neural responses to mild psychosocial challenge in a population that is at a direct risk of developing depression, but who has not as yet succumbed to the full clinical syndrome. A group of healthy and a group of subclinically depressed participants underwent a modified Montreal Imaging Stress task (MIST), a mild neuroimaging psychosocial task and completed state self-esteem and mood measures. Cortisol levels were assessed throughout the session. All participants showed a decrease in performance self-esteem levels following the MIST. Yet, the decline in performance self-esteem levels was associated with increased levels of anxiety and confusion in the healthy group, but increased levels of depression in

SUBMITTER: Dedovic K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4187276 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature