Lack of attentional bias for emotional information in clinically depressed children and adolescents on the dot probe task

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It has not been possible to identify evidence to support the hypothesis that depressed children and adolescents would show an attentional bias towards depression-related words or threat-related words. This research supports earlier work indicating that depression is not linked with attentional bias, but involves cognitive biases at more elaborative phases of information processing. It is proposed that attentional bias for emotional information is a function of psychopathologies for which the emotion of fear is an integral element.

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Information processing in clinically depressed and anxious children and adolescents

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Probability judgements of depressed, anxious and normal children about future negative events were examined using a parallel methodology for adult subjects. Both anxious and normal controls referred the negative events to more likely happen to others than to themselves. This referential judgement was stronger for the anxious compared to the normal subjects. In contrast, clinically depressed children showed no referential bias in saying that future negative events may equally happen to other children and to themselves.

Anxiety in children, Childhood anxiety, Depression in children, Childhood depression, Adolescent anxiety, Anxiety in teenagers, Judgment in children, Childhood judgment

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Everyday memory deficits in children and adolescents with PTSD: Performance on the Rivermead Behavioural Memory Test

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Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) sufferers often report a range of memory difficulties. Standardized neuropsychological tests have been used to investigated these cognitive problems. Memory function in child and adolescent patients diagnosed with PTSD has been investigated using the Rivermead Behavioural Memory Test (RBMT), to determine whether observed memory problems reflect a general cognitive deficit. PTSD subjects showed poor overall memory performance, particularly with regard to prospective and orientation items of the RBMT.

Child psychology, Post-traumatic stress disorder, Memory, Disorders of, Memory disorders

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