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SUBMITTER: Berman MG
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4006074 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience 20110301 1
Individuals diagnosed with major depressive disorder (MDD) often ruminate about their depression and their life situations, impairing their concentration and performance on daily tasks. We examined whether rumination might be due to a deficit in the ability to expel negative information from short-term memory (STM), and fMRI was used to examine the neural structures involved in this ability. MDD and healthy control (HC) participants were tested using a directed-forgetting procedure in a short-te ...[more]