It has been shown that depressed patients performing this task made more incorrect reversals following misleading negative feedback given before the reversal occurred compared with control subjects (Murphy et al., 2003).
In addition, the attentional processing biases that have been reported in depressed patients performing an emotional go/no go task (Murphy et al. 1999) are associated with an increased blood level oxygenation dependent response in the OFC (Elliott et al. 2002).
Offshoot studies have looked at everything from the role of tantrums in depressed children to how depressed preschoolers perform on cognitive tasks.
Albus et al. [ 4] compared patients with a first episode of either schizophrenia or major depression and found that depressed patients performed better in visual-motor and attentional functioning.
Neonates of depressed mothers perform poorly on many clusters of the Brazelton Neonatal Behavioral Assessment Scale (NBAS) such as orientation, reflex, excitability, and withdrawal; they are also more aroused and less attentive (Hernandez-Reif et al. 2006; Hollins 2007; Lundy et al. 1999a).
"And so depressed people often feel guilty about being depressed and not performing the way they should," he says.
In terms of specific subtests with overall group differences, the Depressed-SLE group performed worse than Healthy Controls on Performance Intelligence Quotient, Trail Making Test-Part A, PASAT (Paced Auditory Serial Addition Test), Story Learning, Story Recall, and Block Design.
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Banks have to deal not only with bad legacy loans, but also with increasing non performing loans, which reflect depressed economic activity.
Depressed-SLE participants performed worse than Healthy Controls on all of these domains in post hoc analyses.
