Juniper Publishers-Executive Dysfunction in Depression
Executive Dysfunction in Depression
Authored by Shahbaz khan Executive dysfunction is common in Major depression and includes
problems with planning, organizing, sequencing, shifting, information
processing speed, and maintaining information in working memory [1,2].
The relationship is complex and adds to the disability [3]. The test
commonly used for executive function in psychiatric disorders is the
Wisconsin Card Sorting Test (WCST) [4]. Studies have shown that WCST
scores may be affected even with relatively mild depression [5] and
executive dysfunction may vary as a function of the severity of
depression [6]. However, some studies found no such relationship between
severity of depression and the overall cognitive performance [7].
Moreover, only a few studied executive dysfunctions in young depressives
[8]. In the present study we compared the executive functions in
depression with healthy controls and attempted to see whether there is
any difference in executive function in depressives and non depressed
matched healthy controls. Also we wanted to see whether the first time
depressed differ from the depressed who have recurrent depression. The
effect of severity of depression on the executive functions was also
assessed.
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