TY - JOUR
T1 - Effort and Cognition in Depression
AU - Cohen, Robert M.
AU - Weingartner, Herbert
AU - Smallberg, Sheila A.
AU - Pickar, David
AU - Murphy, Dennis L.
PY - 1982
Y1 - 1982
N2 - Motor performance and cognitive function were examined in depressed patients and controls. Increasing severity of depression was strongly associated with decrements in performance in both motor and memory tasks. Greatest depressionrelated impairment was found on those cognitive and motor tasks that required sustained effort. We discuss these results in terms of a generalized deficit in the central motivational state of depressed individuals.
AB - Motor performance and cognitive function were examined in depressed patients and controls. Increasing severity of depression was strongly associated with decrements in performance in both motor and memory tasks. Greatest depressionrelated impairment was found on those cognitive and motor tasks that required sustained effort. We discuss these results in terms of a generalized deficit in the central motivational state of depressed individuals.
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U2 - 10.1001/archpsyc.1982.04290050061012
DO - 10.1001/archpsyc.1982.04290050061012
M3 - Article
C2 - 7092490
AN - SCOPUS:0020083957
SN - 0003-990X
VL - 39
SP - 593
EP - 597
JO - Archives of General Psychiatry
JF - Archives of General Psychiatry
IS - 5
ER -