Mood repair via attention refocusing or recall of positive autobiographical memories by adolescents with pediatric-onset major depression.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Impaired emotion regulation is increasingly recognized as a core feature of depressive disorders. Indeed, currently and previously depressed adults both report greater problems in attenuating sadness (mood repair) in daily life than healthy controls. In contrast, studies of various strategies to attenuate sad affect have mostly found that currently or previously depressed adults and controls were similarly successful at mood repair in the laboratory. But few studies have examined mood repair among depression-prone youths or the effects of trait characteristics on mood repair outcomes in the laboratory.

Methods

Adolescents, whose first episode of major depressive disorder (MDD) had onset at age 9, on average (probands), and were either in remission or depressed, an

SUBMITTER: Kovacs M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4490142 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature