Executive functions in young patients with unipolar depression

A study of recurrent unipolar major depression and executive functions

MEdIcal coMorbIdItIEs In patIEnts wIth UnIpolar dEprEssIon

Received for publication: Nov. 16, 2005. Revised: Feb. 18, 2008. rEZUMat 1 Department of Psychiatry, Victor Babes University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Timisoara, 2 Psychiatry Hospital Gataia, 3 Louis Turcanu Children

Executive functions and updating of the contents of working memory in unipolar depression.

BACKGROUND Depression is characterized by cognitive impairments, including executive dysfunctions. These executive deficits could reflect impairments of more basic executive processes, such as updating, set shifting and inhibition. While shifting and inhibition impairments are often reported, studies on depression have been somewhat obscure about specific deficits of the updating process. The m...

Executive functions in young children with autism.

The executive dysfunction hypothesis of autism has received support from most studies of older people with autism; however, studies of young children have produced mixed results. Two studies are presented that compare the performance of preschoolers with autism (mean = 51 months/4.3 years of age) to a control group matched on age, and verbal and nonverbal ability. The first study (n = 18 autism...

The Relationship Between Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Depression: Mediating Roles of Executive Functions in Patients with Relapsing-Remitting Multiple Sclerosis

This study aimed to investigate the relationship between chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) and depression with the mediating role of executive functions (EFs) in patients with relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis (RRMS). The statistical population of this descriptive correlational study included all patients with RRMS who were referred to Tehran neurologists in the summer of 2021 and among them,...