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Implications of the Resource Allocation Model for Mood Disorders

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Although classified as a mood disorder in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (American Psychiatric Association, 1987), depression is also known to have important cognitive features. Patients diagnosed with depression often report difficulties in concentration, attention, learning, and memory (Tariot & Weingartner, 1986), and numerous studies document the cognitive impairments that occur with this disorder (e.g., Glass, Uhlenhuth, Hartel, Matuzas, & Fischman, 1981; Silberman, Weingartner, & Post, 1983; Weingartner, Cohen, Murphy, Martello, & Gerdt, 1981; for reviews see McAllister, 1981; W.R. Miller, 1975; Mineka & Sutton, 1992). Tasks requiring sustained effort appear to be particularly likely to produce disruptions during cognitive processing in depression (Cohen, Weingartner, Smallberg, Pickar, & Murphy, 1982; Roy-Byrne, Weingartner, Bierer, Thompson, & Post, 1986). For example, depressed patients have been found to perform relatively poorly on tasks that require effortful or controlled processing (e.g., recalling a long list of items) but have less difficulty on tasks that can be accomplished automatically (e.g., recalling the location of furniture in a room that they just occupied; see Tariot & Weingartner, 1986). In short, considerable evidence indicates that clinical levels of depression are accompanied by cognitive deficits, particularly when depressives are presented with effort-demanding tasks.

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Yee, C.M. (1995). Implications of the Resource Allocation Model for Mood Disorders. In: Miller, G.A. (eds) The Behavioral High-Risk Paradigm in Psychopathology. Series in Psychopathology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-4234-5_10

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