Attention improves after clinical improvement in acutely depressed adolescents.

J Neuropsychiatry Clin Neurosci

From the Child and Adolescent Outpatient Clinic (Y Bloch, SA, Y Braw, HZG) and Emotion-Cognition Research Center (Y Bloch), Shalvata Mental Health Center, Hod-Hasharon, Israel; Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel (Y Bloch); and Discipline of Psychiatry, University of Sydney and Northern Sydney Central Coast Local Health District, Sydney, Australia (GW).

Published: January 2016

In recently depressed adolescents, attention and emotional reactivity improved significantly compared with baseline. Working memory did not improve. This supports the position that, in adolescent depression, attention is state dependent compared with other executive functions that are trait dependent.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1176/appi.neuropsych.13120372DOI Listing

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