A mother's criticism causes distinctive neural activity among formerly depressed

Wednesday, April 1, 2009 - 07:42 in Psychology & Sociology

Formerly depressed women show patterns of brain activity when they are criticised 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...

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