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Sustained attention in major unipolar depression.

Jaap van der Meere¹, Norbert Börger, Titus van Os

¹Laboratory of Developmental and Experimental Clinical Psychology, Groningen, The Netherlands.

Perceptual and Motor Skills

|September 21, 2007

Summary

Depressed patients showed a significant decline in performance on a sustained attention task. This indicates a deficit in sustained attention in major unipolar depression.

Area of Science:

Neuroscience
Psychiatry
Cognitive Psychology

Background:

Major unipolar depression is a prevalent mood disorder.
Deficits in cognitive functions, including attention, are frequently reported in depression.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate sustained attention in patients with major unipolar depression.
To compare the performance decrement over time between depressed patients and healthy controls.

Main Methods:

A non-interrupted vigilance task lasting 36 minutes was administered.
17 patients diagnosed with major unipolar depression and 17 healthy controls participated.

Main Results:

The depressed group exhibited a performance decrement over the duration of the task.

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This decrement suggests a deficit in sustained attention among individuals with major unipolar depression.

Conclusions:

Sustained attention is impaired in major unipolar depression.
Vigilance tasks can reveal cognitive deficits in depressed populations.