Memory bias for emotional and illness-related words in patients with depression, anxiety and somatization disorders: an investigation with the directed forgetting task.

  • Katja Wingenfeld
  • Kirsten Terfehr
  • Björn Meyer
  • Bernd Löwe
  • Carsten Spitzer

Abstract

Memory bias to emotion- and illness-related information plays a prominent role in many mental disorders, particularly major depressive disorder, anxiety disorders and somatoform disorder. The current study aimed to investigate memory bias in different mental disorders by using neutral, emotionally valenced and illness-related word stimuli in a directed forgetting task.

Bibliographical data

Original languageEnglish
Article number1
ISSN0254-4962
Publication statusPublished - 2013
pubmed 22869355