N-apd010 Translational Affective Neuroscience

Translational research refers to the application of basic science to address clinical problems and to acquire knowledge that can be used to guide and refine clinical practice. This special issue seeks to explore and integrate some of the most promising findings offered by recent cognitive and affective neuroscience studies to fill the gap between basic and applied research thereby heightening our understanding of vulnerability for depression. The studies presented in this special issue focus specifically on attentional processes. We solicited contributions from leading researchers who are involved in basic cognitive and neuroscience research investigating processes underlying depression-related disturbances in emotion processing. In this introductory paper, we present an integrative overview to demonstrate how the specific contributions of this special issue might be valuable for translational research.