ArticleChild psychiatry and human development2023
Investigating the Link Between Depression, Cognition, and Motivation in Late Childhood.
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- Untangling relationships between cognitive development and child and adolescent mental health: Findings from the ABCD Study.Developmental cognitive neuroscience · 2026Review
- Anticipatory pleasure as a key hedonic component in classifying major depressive disorder: multidimensional behavioral evidence from majority vote algorithm.BMC psychiatry · 2026Article
- Verbal memory in major depressive disorder in a long-term perspective: a five-year longitudinal study of first episode patients.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- Impact and centrality of attention dysregulation on cognition, anxiety, and low mood in adolescents.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Adolescent Depressive Symptoms: The Role of Late Childhood Frontal EEG Asymmetry, Executive Function, and Adolescent Cognitive Reappraisal.Research on child and adolescent psychopathology · 2023Article
- Current Evidence and Theories in Understanding the Relationship between Cognition and Depression in Childhood and Adolescence: A Narrative Review.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Review
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Abstract
Research has revealed broad cognitive deficits (e.g., memory, learning) in depression, and that motivation may account for this link. We tested the state (i.e., only present during depression), trait (i.e., underlying vulnerability) and scar (i.e., lasting corollary) hypotheses of cognitive dysfunction in depression. We additionally tested subjective motivation as a mediator of the concurrent depression-cognition link. In a longitudinal sample of 11,878 children ages 9-11, we found no evidence of a concurrent state or longitudinal trait or scar relationship between depression and cognition. The pattern of depression-cognition relationships-which precluded a mediator analysis-in our childhood sample is a departure from previous studies. Our findings indicate that cognitive deficits are not strongly associated with depression in childhood, in contrast with the impairment commonly seen in older individuals with depression.
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