Mapping Dynamic Interactions Among Cognitive Biases in Depression

Neural signatures of cognitive and emotional biases in depression

Functional brain imaging studies suggest that depression is a system-level disorder affecting discrete but functionally linked cortical and limbic structures, with abnormalities in the anterior cingulate, lateral, and medial prefrontal cortex, amygdala, and hippocampus. Within this circuitry, abnormal corticolimbic interactions underlie cognitive deficits and emotional impairment in depression....

Attention, interpretation, and memory biases in subclinical depression: a proof-of-principle test of the combined cognitive biases hypothesis.

Emotional biases in attention, interpretation, and memory are viewed as important cognitive processes underlying symptoms of depression. To date, there is a limited understanding of the interplay among these processing biases. This study tested the dependence of memory on depression-related biases in attention and interpretation. Subclinically depressed and nondepressed participants completed a...

Cognitive Biases in Capital Budgeting

Understanding and mapping important interactions among SDGs

Severe life events predict specific patterns of change in cognitive biases in major depression.

BACKGROUND A long-standing debate concerns whether dysfunctional cognitive processes and content play a causal role in the etiology of depression or more simply represent correlates of the disorder. There has been insufficient appreciation in this debate of specific predictions afforded by cognitive theory in relation to major life stress and changes in cognition over time. In this paper we pre...