Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging
Volume 181, Issue 1 , Pages 30-35 , 30 January 2010

Neural correlates of inhibitory deficits in depression

  • Fanny Eugène

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychology, Concordia University, Montréal, Québec, Canada
    • ,
  • Jutta Joormann

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychology, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, USA
    • ,
  • Rebecca E. Cooney

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
    • ,
  • Lauren Y. Atlas

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychology, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
    • ,
  • Ian H. Gotlib

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Department of Psychology, Stanford University, 420 Jordan Hall, Stanford, CA 94305, USA. Tel.: +1 650 723 0804; fax: +1 650 725 5699.

Received 9 January 2009 ,Revised 21 July 2009 ,Accepted 22 July 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.pscychresns.2009.07.010

Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging
Volume 181, Issue 1 , Pages 30-35 , 30 January 2010

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