A mother's criticism causes distinctive neural activity among formerly depressed
Tuesday, March 31, 2009 - 14:07
in Psychology & Sociology
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., March 31, 2009 - Formerly depressed women show patterns of brain activity when they are criticized by their mothers that are distinctly different from the patterns shown by never depressed controls, according to a new study from Harvard University. The participants reported being completely well and fully recovered, yet their neural activity resembled that which has been observed in depressed individuals in other studies.