اثر کورتیزول بر تعویض حافظه برای کلمات احساسی؟ مطالعه در بیماران مبتلا به افسردگی و شرکت کنندگان سالم با استفاده از وظیفه فراموش کردن کارگردانی

Cortisol was not found to have an effect on the results of the DF task. Interestingly, there was significant impact of valence: both groups showed the highest DF score for positive words and remembered significantly more positive words that were supposed to be remembered and significantly more negative words that were supposed to be forgotten. In general, healthy participants remembered more words than the depressed patients. Still, the depressed patients were able to inhibit intentionally irrelevant information at a comparable level as the healthy controls. These results demonstrate the importance to distinguish in experimental designs between different cognitive domains such as inhibition and memory in our study.