A multi-method assessment of attentional processes in chronic, treatment-resistant depression

Autor: Laura M.S. De Putter, Eni S. Becker, Rudi De Raedt, Anne E. M. Speckens, Ernst H. W. Koster, Mira B. Cladder-Micus, Jan Spijker, Janna N. Vrijsen
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2021
Předmět:
medicine.medical_specialty
Emotions
Stress-related disorders Donders Center for Medical Neuroscience [Radboudumc 13]
Social Sciences
Audiology
Attentional bias
behavioral disciplines and activities
Experimental Psychopathology and Treatment
Attentional Bias
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
All institutes and research themes of the Radboud University Medical Center
medicine
Humans
Attention
Depression (differential diagnoses)
Biological Psychiatry
Depressive Disorder
Major
Depression
Depressive disorder
Attentional control
medicine.disease
030227 psychiatry
Emotion context insensitivity
Psychiatry and Mental health
Attentional deficits
Color naming
Multi method
Biological psychiatry
Treatment-resistant depression
Psychology
Chronic depression
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Stroop effect
Zdroj: JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRIC RESEARCH
Journal of Psychiatric Research, 140, pp. 68-76
Journal of Psychiatric Research, 140, 68-76
ISSN: 0022-3956
1879-1379
Popis: Contains fulltext : 233751.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access) Attentional deficits as well as attentional biases towards negative material are related to major depression and might maintain chronicity. However, studies investigating attentional deficits and attentional biases in chronic, treatment-resistant depressed are lacking. The aim of the current study was to compare measures of attentional deficits and attentional bias between chronic, treatment-resistant depressed outpatients and never-depressed control participants. Attentional deficits were assessed with the attentional control scale (ACS) and the Stroop Color naming task. Attentional bias was measured with the exogenous cueing task (ECT) and an emotional Stroop task. Chronic, treatment-resistant depressed patients (n=80) showed significantly more attentional deficits than never-depressed controls (n=113) on the ACS and Stroop color-naming task. However, in contrast with hypotheses, no differences were found between chronic, treatment-resistant depressed patients and never-depressed individuals on the ECT or emotional Stroop task. The current findings indicate that chronic, treatment-resistant depressed patients present attentional deficits. The results however question whether this patient group shows attentional biases for negative material. Future research should include comparisons of chronic, treatment-resistant and non-chronically depressed patients. If replicated, these current results might indicate that focusing on improving attentional deficits could be a more promising target for treatment than addressing attentional biases. 9 p.
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