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Article: New depression in adolescents study results reported from Oregon Research Institute.
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- Biotech Week
- Article date:
- November 11, 2009
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Data detailed in 'Dynamics of affective experience and behavior in depressed adolescents' have been presented. "Depression is often characterized as a disorder of affect regulation. However, research focused on delineating the key dimensions of affective experience (other than valence) that are abnormal in depressive disorder has been scarce, especially in child and adolescent samples," researchers in the United States report (see also Depression).
"As definitions of affect regulation center around processes involved in initiating, maintaining, and modulating the occurrence, intensity, and duration of affective experiences, it is important to examine the extent ...