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Depression: perspectives from affective neuroscience
Annual Review of Psychology
Short Title: Depression
Format: Journal Article
Publication Year: 2002
Pages: 545-574
Sources ID: 22739
Visibility: Private
Zotero Collections: Contexts of Contemplation Project
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Depression is a disorder of the representation and regulation of mood and emotion. The circuitry underlying the representation and regulation of normal emotion and mood is reviewed, including studies at the animal level, human lesion studies, and human brain imaging studies. This corpus of data is used to construct a model of the ways in which affect can become disordered in depression. Research on the prefrontal cortex, anterior cingulate, hippocampus, and amygdala is reviewed and abnormalities in the structure and function of these different regions in depression is considered. The review concludes with proposals for the specific types of processing abnormalities that result from dysfunctions in different parts of this circuitry and offers suggestions for the major themes upon which future research in this area should be focused.

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