@article{ref1,
title="Post-disaster depression and vigilance: a functional near-infrared spectroscopy study",
journal="Experimental brain research",
year="2013",
author="Helton, William S. and Ossowski, Ulrike and Malinen, Sanna",
volume="226",
number="3",
pages="357-362",
abstract="The present study was designed to explore the relationships between post-disaster self-reports of depression, vigilance task performance, and frontal cerebral oxygenation. Forty participants (20 women) performed vigilance tasks following a magnitude 7.1 earthquake in Christchurch, New Zealand. In addition to performance, we measured self-reports of depression, anxiety, and stress anchored to the initial earthquake event, and frontal cerebral activity with functional near-infrared spectroscopy. Among the participants, one case may have been an outlier with extremely elevated levels of self-reported depressivity. Excluding the extreme case, there was a correlation between change in response time (response slowing) and depressivity. Including the case there was a correlation between depressivity and right hemisphere oxygenation. These results provide some support for a relationship between moderate depressivity and sustained attention difficulties.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0014-4819",
doi="10.1007/s00221-013-3441-4",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00221-013-3441-4"
}