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Attentional networks in euthymic patients with unipolar depression

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 April 2020

M. Preiss ,
L. Kramska ,
E. Dockalova ,
M. Holubova  and
H. Kucerova
M. Preiss*
Affiliation:
Prague Psychiatric Center, Ustavni 91, Bohnice, Praha 8, Czech Republic
L. Kramska
Affiliation:
Na Homolce Hospital, Roentgenova 37/2, 150 00, Praha 5, Czech Republic
E. Dockalova
Affiliation:
Prague Psychiatric Center, Ustavni 91, Bohnice, Praha 8, Czech Republic
M. Holubova
Affiliation:
Prague Psychiatric Center, Ustavni 91, Bohnice, Praha 8, Czech Republic
H. Kucerova
Affiliation:
The Faculty Hospital Brno, Psychiatric Clinic, Jihlavská 20, Brno-Bohunice, Czech Republic
*
*Corresponding author. E-mail address: [email protected] (M. Preiss).
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Abstract

Background

The capacity to focus and concentrate or to direct attention supports many aspects of cognitive functioning including short-term memory and higher-level cognitive functions. The purpose was to assess attentional networks in euthymic patients with unipolar depression using the Attentional Network Test (ANT).

Materials and methods

We investigated performance of attention by virtue of ANT during remission from unipolar depressive disorder and tested a hypothesis that there are no differences between outpatient group (euthymic patients, N = 32) and matched controls in attentional variables, the relationship of attentional networks and everyday cognitive failures.

Results

No differences between the groups in attentional networks were found and no relationship between attentional networks and cognitive failures was found.

Limitations

One assessment during remission could be insufficient to recognize long-term pattern of cognitive functions.

Conclusions

These data show non-impaired attentional networks possibly explained by sufficient level of remission and ameliorated influence of high education on cognition.

Keywords

ANTAttentional Network TestEuthymicUnipolar depression
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Original articles
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European Psychiatry , Volume 25 , Issue 2 , March 2010 , pp. 69 - 74
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Copyright © Elsevier Masson SAS 2010

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