Attention Bias in Rumination and Depression: Cognitive Mechanisms and Brain Networks.

ABSTRACT: Depressed individuals exhibit biased attention to negative emotional information. However, much remains unknown about (1) the neurocognitive mechanisms of attention bias (e.g., qualities of negative information that evoke attention bias, or functional brain network dynamics that may reflect a propensity for biased attention) and (2) distinctions in the types of attention bias related to different dimensions of depression (e.g., ruminative depression). Here, in 50 women, clinical depression was associated with facilitated processing of negative information only when such information was self-descriptive and task-relevant. However, among depressed individuals, trait rumination was associated with biases towards negative self-descriptive information regardless of task goals, especially when n

SUBMITTER: Kaiser RH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6519952 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature