title: Attention improves after clinical improvement in acutely depressed adolescents.
abstract: In recently depressed adolescents, attention and emotional reactivity improved significantly compared with baseline. Working memory did not improve. This supports the position that, in adolescent depression, attention is state dependent compared with other executive functions that are trait dependent.
authors.affiliation: From the Child and Adolescent Outpatient Clinic (Y Bloch, SA, Y Braw, HZG) and Emotion-Cognition Research Center (Y Bloch), Shalvata Mental Health Center, Hod-Hasharon, Israel; Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel (Y Bloch); and Discipline of Psychiatry, University of Sydney and Northern Sydney Central Coast Local Health District, Sydney, Australia (GW).
authors.forename: Yuval
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Bloch
authors.forename: Shai
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Aviram
authors.forename: Yoram
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Braw
authors.forename: Hila Z
authors.initials: HZ
authors.lastname: Gvirts
authors.forename: Liron
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Rabany
authors.forename: Garry
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Walter
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001289:Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity / Q000209:etiology*; D003072:Cognition Disorders / Q000209:etiology*; D003863:Depression / Q000150:complications* / Q000523:psychology*; D018450:Disease Progression; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D008297:Male; D008570:Memory, Short-Term; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales; D013997:Time Factors