Cognitive science has been instrumental in advancing our understanding of the onset,
maintenance, and treatment of depression. Research conducted over the last 50 years …

Emotion regulation is hypothesized to be a multifaceted process by which individuals
willfully modulate the intensity and direction of emotional response via prefrontally mediated …

Importance During the past 20 years, numerous neuroimaging experiments have
investigated aberrant brain activation during cognitive and emotional processing in patients …

Objective: Functional neuroimaging investigations of major depressive disorder can
advance both the neural theory and treatment of this debilitating illness. Inconsistency of …

Abnormal emotion processing is a core feature of major depressive disorder (MDD). Since
the emergence of functional neuroimaging techniques, many studies have been conducted …

A growing interest in cerebellar function and its involvement in higher cognition have
prompted much research in recent years. Cerebellar presence in a wide range of cognitive …

Models describing the neural correlates of biased emotion processing in depression have
focused on increased activation of anterior cingulate and amygdala and decreased …

Three alternative views regarding how Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) alters emotional
reactivity have been featured in the literature: positive attenuation (reduced positive …

Background A growing number of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies
have been conducted in major depressive disorder (MDD) to elucidate reward-related brain …

Objective: A large number of studies with considerably variable methods have been
performed to investigate brain regions involved in the pathophysiology of major depressive …