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Does antidepressant treatment alter frontal haemodynamic changes during a verbal fluency task in medication-naïve MDD patients?
Does antidepressant treatment alter frontal haemodynamic changes during a verbal fluency task in medication-naïve MDD patients?
NIRS-measured hypofrontality during a verbal fluency task may serve as a trait marker for depression and a baseline predictor of antidepressant treatment response.
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NIRS hypofrontality may persist despite symptom relief in MDD; leaves open its value as a trait marker and baseline response predictor.
Tomioka et al. (2015) studied this question.
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