Journal of Depression and Anxiety
Open Access

Department of Psychology, Istanbul Medipol University, Istanbul, Turkey

Publications

• Research Article   
  Depression Affects Working Memory Performance: A Functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy (FNIRS) Study
  Author(s): Özge Keleş* and Erol Yıldırım
  
  Depression is a complex disorder that can be caused by psychosocial and biological conditions and it not only effects mood disorders, but also cognitive functions such as memory, decision making, psychomotor speed and attention. As a result of the studies, some findings indicate that depressed individuals perform worse in neuropsychological tests than healthy individuals, while other studies indicate there is no difference between the two groups. According to neuroimaging studies on this subject, functional and anatomical differences were detected at the cortex and subcortical levels in the prefrontal lobe. This study is consisting of two parts, behavioral and neuroimaging using FNIRS. BDI was applied to the participants. The average age of the group with lower BDI score is 23, 9 ± 3, 04; the average age of the higher group with higher BDI score is 22, 2+2,.. View More»
  DOI: 10.35248/2167-1044.22.11.476

  Abstract HTML PDF