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Executive deficits in major depression

Degl'Innocenti, A., Ågren, H., Bäckman, L.·1998·Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica
DOI 10.1111/j.1600-0447.1998.tb09985.x
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Clinically depressed patients and control subjects were examined by means of different tests to assess executive functions (the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test, the Stroop Color Word Test and a test of verbal fluency). The results indicate that the depressed patients were generally slower than the controls, as reflected by longer retrieval times for both words and colours. Furthermore, the depressed patients showed impairment with regard to altering behaviour appropriately in response to feedback. However, there were no depression‐related increases in perseverative responses, and the ability to inhibit irrelevant information was unaffected by depression. No relationship was found between specific depressive symptoms or the severity of depression and cognitive performance. The overall pattern of results suggests that depression may affect various executive functions in a differentiated manner.

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  • Unmedicated depressed individuals, including children, adolescents, and adults, perform worse than healthy controls on feature-based selective attention tasks requiring attention to a task-relevant feature while ignoring a distracting feature.

    “Many investigations of color-word reaction times have revealed that unmedicated depressed individuals (including children, adolescents, and adults) perform worse than healthy controls when required to attend to a task-relevant feature (e.g., color) while simultaneously ignoring a distracting feature (e.g., semantic meaning)16–19, including in an international sample of n = 1008 MDD participants”

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Authors
Degl'Innocenti, A., Ågren, H., & Bäckman, L.
Affiliations
  • University of Gothenburg (SE)
  • Karolinska Institutet (SE)
ORCID
Bäckman, L.
Venue
Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica
Publisher
Wiley
Published
1998-03
Volume
97
Issue
3
Pages
182-188
ISSN
  • 0001-690X (ISSN-L)
  • 1600-0447
DOI
10.1111/j.1600-0447.1998.tb09985.x
OpenAlex
W2011668290
Cited by
193
References
35
Citations by year
2026: 3 · 2025: 2 · 2024: 1 · 2023: 4 · 2022: 3 · 2021: 28 · 2019: 4 · 2018: 2 · 2017: 3 · 2016: 4 · 2015: 4 · 2014: 5 · 2013: 10 · 2012: 6
FWCI
2.66
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/termsAndConditions#vor (vor, 3544 d)
Locations
  • Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Funders
Vetenskapsrådet
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Pharmacology › Treatment of Major Depression
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
Keywords
major depressive disorder, executive function, cognitive impairment, Wisconsin Card Sorting Test, Stroop task, verbal fluency, response inhibition, perseveration, feedback processing, cognitive speed, depression severity
MeSH terms
Analysis of Variance, Attention, Cognition Disorders, Depressive Disorder, Female, Frontal Lobe, Humans, Inhibition, Psychological, Male, Middle Aged, Neuropsychological Tests, Verbal Behavior, Volition, Case-Control Studies

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