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Emotional bias and waking salivary cortisol in relatives of patients with major depression
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Background: Biases in the processing of emotional information have been shown to be abnormal in subjects with major depression, both during an episode and after full recovery. However, it is unclear whether these biases are a cause or an effect of the depression. This study set out to explore whether such biases represent a vulnerability factor for depression by looking at unaffected first-degree relatives of those with major depressive disorder. We also measured waking salivary cortisol, as ...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Psychological Medicine Journal website
- Volume:
- 37
- Issue:
- 3
- Pages:
- 403-410
- Publication date:
- 2007-03-01
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1469-8978
- ISSN:
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0033-2917
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- English
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- ora:3842
- Deposit date:
- 2010-06-03
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- Cambridge University Press
- Copyright date:
- 2006
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- The full-text of this article is not currently available in ORA, but you may be able to access the article via the publisher copy link on this record page. Citation: Le Masurier, M., Cowen, P. J. & Harmer, C. J. (2007). 'Emotional bias and waking salivary cortisol in relatives of patients with major depression', Psychological Medicine 37(3), 403-410. [Available at http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=PSM].
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