Challenging the negative learning bias hypothesis of depression: reversal learning in a naturalistic psychiatric sample.

CONCLUSIONS: These results speak against the generalizability of the negative learning bias hypothesis to depressed patients with comorbidities. This study highlights the importance of investigating unselected samples of psychiatric patients, which represent the vast majority of the psychiatric population.
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Source: Psychological Medicine - June 14, 2020 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Brolsma SCA, Vrijsen JN, Vassena E, Rostami Kandroodi M, Bergman MA, van Eijndhoven PF, Collard RM, den Ouden HEM, Schene AH, Cools R Tags: Psychol Med Source Type: research