Projects
Social Brain and Reward Processing in Depression
This study is using structural and functional neuroimaging techniques to examine the neurobiological correlates of maladaptive responses to socially threatening situations that are potentiated by depressed mood states. Studying people who are actively depressed in addition to those who have a history of depression but are currently in remission will allow us to disentangle transient state-related effects from more-enduring trait-related dispositions. We have recently started recruitment for a new study in first-episode depression examining how the reward system of the brain may be altered in young people vulnerable to depression
Investigators
A/Prof Nick Allen, A/Prof Murat Yucel, Dr Emre Bora, Dr Alex Fornito, Dr Ben Harrison, Dr Sarah Whittle, Dr Mark Lourenz, Dr Melissa Green
Students
Dr Christopher Davey, Valentina Lorenzetti
Research Assistants
Ethics
Melbourne Health: MHREC 2007.18
Project Title: First episode depression in young people: an fMRI study of response to immediate and delayed, social and non-social rewards
Investigator: Davey, C