Depressive Deficits in Forgetting

Depressive deficits in forgetting.

The aim of this study was to investigate whether difficulties in forgetting (like difficulties in remembering) are associated with depressive states. First, dysphoric and nondysphoric students learned 40 word pairs, each consisting of a positive or negative adjective and a neutral noun (target). Next, the students practiced responding with some targets and suppressing others, when given the adj...

Depressive deficits in word identification and recall

Inhibitory deficits in older adults: list-method directed forgetting revisited.

In list-method directed forgetting, participants are cued to intentionally forget a previously studied list while remembering a subsequently presented 2nd list. Results from prior research are inconclusive on whether older adults show deficits in this type of task. In 3 experiments, the authors reexamined the issue and compared younger and older adults' responsiveness to the forget cue. Across ...

DHA Deficits in Major Depressive Disorder

The pioneering work by Dr. Joseph Hibbeln and others have reported an inverse relationship between the per capita consumption of fish/seafood containing DHA/EPA omega-3 fatty acids and the prevalence of major depressive disorder (MDD) based on cross-national and cross-sectional epidemiological surveys. Since the region of the brain known as the orbito-frontal cortex (OFC) plays a key role in th...

Depressive deficits in recognition: dissociation of recollection and familiarity.

Dysphoric and nondysphoric students (48 women and 24 men) participated in an experiment that was designed to separate automatic and controlled uses of memory in a modified recognition paradigm. First, they judged the relation of target words to paired words. Later they made recognition decisions on target items alone or in the context of the original paired item. The use of L.L. Jacoby's (1991)...