Abstract Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) is an affective disorder with sustained negative
affect and difficulties experiencing positive affect as its hallmark features. Previous work also …

Mindfulness—as a state, trait, process, type of meditation, and intervention has proven to be
beneficial across a diverse group of psychological disorders as well as for general stress …

Abnormal emotion processing is a core feature of major depressive disorder (MDD). Since
the emergence of functional neuroimaging techniques, many studies have been conducted …

Conceptualizations of emotion regulation have led to the identification of cognitive and
behavioral regulatory abnormalities that contribute to the development and maintenance of …

Unlike neurologic conditions, such as brain tumors, dementia, and stroke, the neural
mechanisms for all psychiatric disorders remain unclear. A large body of research obtained …

Cortisol is a biomarker for stress monitoring; however, the biomedical and clinical relevance
is still controversial due to the complexity of cortisol secretion mechanisms and their …

Objective: Despite significant advances in neuroscience and treatment development, no
widely accepted biomarkers are available to inform diagnostics or identify preferred …

The right and left side of the brain are asymmetric in anatomy and function. We review
electrophysiological (EEG and event-related potential), behavioral (dichotic and visual …

Anhedonia is defined as a diminished ability to experience interest or pleasure, and is a
critical psychopathological dimension of major depressive disorder (MDD). The purpose of …

Abstract Since Costello's (1972) seminal Behavior Therapy article on loss of reinforcers or
reinforcer effectiveness in depression, the role of reward sensitivity and processing in both …