Erythropoietin Improves Mood and Modulates the Cognitive and Neural Processing of Emotion 3 Days Post Administration

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This article show the characterization of the effects of Epo in a clinically depressed group is warranted.

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Accentuating the Negative in Depression

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Excess activity in emotion-related brain regions has been linked to maladaptive emotional reactions and sensitivity to negative cues in people with depression. Fu et al. (CME, p. 599) previously demonstrated this relationship in depressed patients by presenting facial images with sad expressions and measuring brain responses with functional magnetic resonance imaging. Now these authors report the converse: an attenuated range of neural responses to happy faces. After 8 weeks of drug treatment, however, the capacity for processing happy faces increased

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