Publications by authors named "David Mesika"
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- The study investigated how major depressive disorder (MDD) affects the functional connectivity between the left and right amygdala, particularly looking at the medial sub-region in MDD patients compared to healthy controls.
- Findings revealed that MDD patients showed reduced inter-hemispheric connectivity in the medial amygdala, which correlated with the severity of depressive symptoms and emotional processing abilities.
- Additionally, the medial amygdala's connectivity levels could predict treatment responses to SSRIs in over 65% of cases, highlighting the importance of this brain region in understanding depression.
The brain activity associated with processing numerical end values has received limited research attention. The present study explored the neural correlates associated with processing semantic end values under conditions of automatic number processing. Event-related potentials (ERPs) were recorded while participants performed the numerical Stroop task, in which they were asked to compare the physical size of pairs of numbers, while ignoring their numerical values.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFElectrophysiological evidence for automatic processing of erroneous stimuli.
Neuropsychologia
July 2014
In a paradigm combining color-word Stroop and misspelled words processing, spelling mistakes were placed in half the Stroop stimuli. Participants were presented with words written in different ink colors and asked to identify the color of the ink while ignoring the word meaning. Importantly, whether the word was correctly spelled or not was completely irrelevant to the task.
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