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COGNITIVE AFFECTIVE & BEHAVIORAL NEUROSCIENCE
Volume 17, Issue 6, Pages 1164-1175Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.3758/s13415-017-0540-x
Keywords
Major depressive disorder; Chronic depression; Error-related negativity; Mindfulness; Sustained attention
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- German Research Foundation [BA2255 3-1]
- Heisenberg Fellowship from the German Research Foundation [BA2255 2-1]
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The error-related negativity (ERN), an evoked-potential that arises in response to the commission of errors, is an important early indicator of self-regulatory capacities. In this study we investigated whether brief mindfulness training can reverse ERN deficits in chronically depressed patients. The ERN was assessed in a sustained attention task. Chronically depressed patients (n = 59) showed significantly blunted expression of the ERN in frontocentral and frontal regions, relative to healthy controls (n = 18). Following two weeks of training, the patients (n = 24) in the mindfulness condition showed a significantly increased ERN magnitude in the frontal region, but there were no significant changes in patients who had received a resting control (n = 22). The findings suggest that brief training in mindfulness may help normalize aberrations in the ERN in chronically depressed patients, providing preliminary evidence for the responsiveness of this parameter to mental training.
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