The authors give a special thanks to the Stony Brook Center for Survey Research, which provided a seed grant in support of the current study. We also thank Amysue Hansen and Maria Rienzi for help with data collection.
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Blunted neural response to rewards prospectively predicts depression in adolescent girls
Article first published online: 18 DEC 2012
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8986.2012.01485.x
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Bress, J. N., Foti, D., Kotov, R., Klein, D. N. and Hajcak, G. (2013), Blunted neural response to rewards prospectively predicts depression in adolescent girls. Psychophysiology, 50: 74–81. doi: 10.1111/j.1469-8986.2012.01485.x
Publication History
- Issue published online: 18 DEC 2012
- Article first published online: 18 DEC 2012
- Manuscript Accepted: 18 SEP 2012
- Manuscript Received: 19 APR 2012
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