A Brain Model of Disturbed Self-Appraisal in Depression.

CONCLUSIONS: The exaggerated influence of the medial prefrontal cortex on the posterior cingulate cortex in depression is a neural correlate of the disturbed self-appraisal that is characteristic of the illness. PMID: 28595489 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28595489?dopt=Abstract

Source: The American Journal of Psychiatry - June 9, 2017 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Davey CG, Breakspear M, Pujol J, Harrison BJ Tags: Am J Psychiatry Source Type: research

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