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| Moria J SmoskiSummaryAffiliation: Duke University Medical Center Country: USA Publications
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Major depressive disorder is characterized by greater reward network activation to monetary than pleasant image rewardsMoria J Smoski
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, USA
Psychiatry Res 194:263-70. 2011..Results suggest reduced reward network activation in MDD when anticipating rewards, as well as relatively greater hypoactivation to pleasant image than monetary rewards...- Functional imaging of emotion reactivity in opiate-dependent borderline personality disorderMoria J Smoski
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, USA
Personal Disord 2:230-41. 2011..Future studies that also include BPD-only and OD-only groups are necessary to help clarify the individual and potentially synergistic effects of these two conditions... - Decision-making and risk aversion among depressive adultsMoria J Smoski
Duke University Medical Center, DUMC Box 3026, Durham, NC 27710, USA
J Behav Ther Exp Psychiatry 39:567-76. 2008..Findings suggested enhanced feedback-based decision-making and risk aversion among depressive individuals... - fMRI of alterations in reward selection, anticipation, and feedback in major depressive disorderMoria J Smoski
Department of Psychiatry, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, 27710, USA
J Affect Disord 118:69-78. 2009..Results indicate that MDD is characterized by striatal hyporesponsivity, and that future studies of MDD treatments that seek to improve responses to rewarding stimuli should assess striatal functioning... 
Speed and accuracy of facial expression classification in avoidant personality disorder: a preliminary studyM Zachary Rosenthal
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27705, USA
Personal Disord 2:327-34. 2011..The findings are some of the first to investigate facial emotional processing in a sample of individuals with APD and point to an underlying deficit in processing social cues that may be involved in the maintenance of APD...- Smoking withdrawal is associated with increases in brain activation during decision making and reward anticipation: a preliminary studyMerideth A Addicott
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University Medical Center, Box 2701, Durham, NC 27708, USA
Psychopharmacology (Berl) 219:563-73. 2012..Acute nicotine abstinence is associated with disruption of executive function and reward processes; however, the neurobiological basis of these effects has not been fully elucidated... - Neural mechanisms of subclinical depressive symptoms in women: a pilot functional brain imaging studyJennifer N Felder
Carolina Institute for Developmental Disabilities, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 7160, USA
BMC Psychiatry 12:152. 2012..The purpose of this study was to evaluate relations between subclinical levels of depressive symptoms and neural activation patterns during tasks previously shown to differentiate individuals with and without MDD... - Remitted major depression is characterized by reward network hyperactivation during reward anticipation and hypoactivation during reward outcomesGabriel S Dichter
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, United States
J Affect Disord 136:1126-34. 2012.... - The effects of psychotherapy on neural responses to rewards in major depressionGabriel S Dichter
Department of Psychiatry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599 3366, USA
Biol Psychiatry 66:886-97. 2009..However, the potential for psychotherapy to normalize neurobiological responses to pleasant stimuli has not been evaluated... - The effects of Brief Behavioral Activation Therapy for Depression on cognitive control in affective contexts: An fMRI investigationGabriel S Dichter
Department of Psychiatry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 7160, USA
J Affect Disord 126:236-44. 2010..Unipolar major depressive disorder (MDD) is characterized by impaired cognitive control in affective contexts, but the potential for psychotherapy to affect the neural correlates of these functions has not been evaluated... - Psychological and neural mechanisms of trait mindfulness in reducing depression vulnerabilityNatalie A Paul
Brain Imaging and Analysis Center, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27705, USA
Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci 8:56-64. 2013..Based on these results, mindfulness could reduce vulnerability to depression in at least two ways: (i) by buffering against trait rumination and negative bias and (ii) by reducing automatic emotional responding via the insula... - Unipolar depression does not moderate responses to the Sweet Taste TestGabriel S Dichter
Department of Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, 101 Manning Drive, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 3366, USA
Depress Anxiety 27:859-63. 2010..However, STT response profiles in unipolar major depressive disorder (MDD), a disorder characterized by anhedonia, have been minimally investigated... - Changes in spirituality partly explain health-related quality of life outcomes after Mindfulness-Based Stress ReductionJeffrey M Greeson
Duke Integrative Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, USA
J Behav Med 34:508-18. 2011..Findings suggest a novel mechanism by which increased daily spiritual experiences following Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction may partially explain improved mental health as a function of greater mindfulness... - Effects of mindfulness on psychological health: a review of empirical studiesShian Ling Keng
Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA
Clin Psychol Rev 31:1041-56. 2011..The review ends with a discussion on mechanisms of change of mindfulness interventions and suggested directions for future research...