Working Memory Deficits in Depression and Related Interventions

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.211020.132How to use a DOI?

Keywords

working memory, deficits, depression, neural mechanism, interventions

Abstract

Working memory is short-term recognition memory processed by the prefrontal cortex, which may play an important role in reasoning, decision making, and the guidance of behaviour. It is difficult for people with depression to make the decision and achieve goals. Thereby, it is significant to learn working memory defects in depression and to develop related interventions. Attachment patterns, the social competition hypothesis, and the hopelessness theory of depression have been extensively studied. It is suggested that early childhood environment and personal encounter may be the two most important factors for the formation of depression. As the defects and functions of working memory are still quite limited, this review discussed the relationship between working memory and depression from the following three aspects: the update of emotion-related working memory in depression, the neural mechanism, and related intervention for people with depression. One of the limitations of existing studies is that they focused on cross-sectional comparisons. Future research should conduct longitudinal studies. Another is that many tasks are cognitive tasks. However, the renewal of working memory in real life and natural environment is very complicated. Most of the researchers should rely on many life taskings. In addition, existing studies regarding working memory defect as a single factor, without considering its relationship with other factors. Therefore, future studies can investigate more on the impact of working memory defects on depression.

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© 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Rouchi Guo
AU  - Jiaxi Li
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/10/21
TI  - Working Memory Deficits in Depression and Related Interventions
BT  - Proceedings of the 2021 International Conference on Public Relations and Social Sciences (ICPRSS 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 69
EP  - 74
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.211020.132
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.211020.132
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