Low emotional arousal in depression as explained by the motivated attention approach


Low emotional arousal in depression as explained by the motivated attention approach
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Escritos de PsicologíaPsychological Writings 2012, 5 2
Autor: Stephan Moratti
Fuente: http://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=271024367003
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Moratti, Stephan
Low emotional arousal in depression as explained by the motivated attention approach
Escritos de Psicología - Psychological Writings, vol.
5, núm.
2, mayo-agosto, 2012, pp.
20-26
Universidad de Málaga
Málaga, España
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5, nº 2, pp.
20-26
Mayo-Agosto 2012
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ISSN 1989-3809 DOI: 10.5231-psy.writ.2012.1106
Low emotional arousal in depression as explained by the motivated
attention approach
La baja activación emocional en la depresión explicada por el
enfoque de la atención motivada
Stephan Moratti, PhD
Departamento de Psicología Básica I.
Universidad Complutense de Madrid, España.
Centro de Tecnología Biomédica, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, España.
Disponible online 31 de agosto de 2012
Depression has been associated with low emotional arousal.
Highly arousing emotional stimuli engage the cortical
circuits related to the allocation of attention towards these stimuli.
Thus, it has been hypothesized that depression
could be characterized by a deficit in these brain circuits.
This brief review summarizes how attention and emotion are
interconnected and suggests that common brain mechanisms underlie the link between emotion and attention.
Finally,
the results from depression research are presented that show that low emotional arousal in depression could arise from
a deficit in brain circuits related to attention.
Keywords: Depression; Emotion; Attention; Fronto-parietal cortex.
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