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In an occasional column, Journal Watch Psychiatry editors briefly comment on review articles. These annotations were written by Deborah Cowley, MD, Peter Roy-Byrne, MD, Jonathan Silver, MD, and Joel Yager, MD.
The cognitive neurobiology of depression. These authors (the senior author is Aaron Beck) relate each element of the cognitive model of depression to findings in structural and functional neuroscience.1 For example, the concept that negatively biased attention promotes depression is confirmed by the findings that depressed individuals have attentional bias for sad stimuli and show an associated abnormal activation of the right ventrolateral and dorsolateral prefrontal cortex and the rostral anterior cingulate cortex. The authors conclu…