The comparison of the automatic and controlled information processing in persons with major depression disorder and normal persons and effects of antidepressant agents on them

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The aim of present study was to investigate automatic and controlled information processing and the effects of antidepressant drugs on these variables in major depression disorder. In this research, 30 persons with major depression disorder who had eating antidepressant drugs and 30 persons with major depression disorder who had not eaten antidepressant drug in recent month and 30 persons from personel of Mohaghegh Ardebili university as general population have been randomly selected and were asked to answer to beck depression inventory (beck et al, 1988), word competition test (Jacoby, toth and yohelinas, 1993) and words association subscale of wechsler memory scale (wechsler, 1997). attained data were analysed by one way analysis of variance and LSD as post hoc test. The results of this research indicated that there is no significant difference between two depressed groups and normal group in automatic processing. But two depressed groups had poor controlled processing than normal group. Fourthermore, there was not significant difference between two depressed groups in information processing.

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Journal of Psychological Studies
Volume 4, Issue 1
April 2008
Pages 87-104

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