Right fronto-temporal activation differs between Chinese first-episode and recurrent Major Depression Disorders during a verbal fluency task: A near-infrared spectroscopy study

Major Depression Disorder (MDD) is the second most common psychiatric disease, the prevalence of which is about 2 –4% globally, and 1.7–2% in China (Gu et al., 2013). Around 50–60% of these patients who have gone through the first-episode of MDD encounter recurrences (Talarowska et al., 2015), and 20–60% of patients diagnosed with recurrent MDD experience more than two episodes of MDD in their lifetime (Mead et al., 2008).

Source: Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging - March 28, 2017 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Jiuju Wang, Bin Lvd, Wenxiang Quan, Taeko N. Wydell, Ju Tian, Pengfei Wang, Jin Liu, Wentian Dong Source Type: research