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Census Tract Ambient Ozone Predicts Trajectories of Depressive Symptoms in Adolescents [PDF]
This study of ozone exposure uses repeated measurement of depressive symptoms in adolescents and to test competing possibilities that findings are accounted for by stress, socioeconomic resources, or neighborhood factors.
Updating Positive and Negative Stimuli in Working Memory in Depression [PDF]
To examine the ability to update affective material in working memory, depressed and never-disordered participants performed an emotion 2-back task in which they were presented with a series of happy, sad, and neutral faces and were asked to indicate whether the current face had the same (match-set) or different (break-set or no-set) emotional expression as that presented 2 faces earlier.
Psychosocial Functioning of Young Adults Who Have Experienced and Recovered From Major Depressive Disorder During Adolescence [PDF]
This study examined whether adolescent major depressive disorder was associated with difficulties in young adult functioning and whether differences would remain significant after accounting for nonmood disorder, major depressive disorder recurrence, functioning in adolescence, or current mood state.
Children of Depressed Parents: Mechanisms of Risk and Implications for Treatment
This APA book provides an integrated framework for understanding the risks children of depressed parents face in developing depression themselves.
