Current Evidence and Theories in Understanding the Relationship between Cognition and Depression in Childhood and Adolescence : A Narrative Review

The present narrative review has covered the current evidence regarding the role of cognitive impairments during the early phase of major depressive disorder (MDD), attempting to describe the cognitive features in childhood, adolescence and in at-risk individuals. These issues were analyzed considering the trait, scar and state hypotheses of MDD by examining the cold and hot dimensions, the latter explained in relation to the current psychological theoretical models of MDD. This search was performed on several electronic databases up to August 2022. Although the present review is the first to have analyzed both cold and hot cognitive impairments considering the trait, scar and state hypotheses, we found that current evidence did not allow to exclusively confirm the validity of one specific hypothesis since several equivocal and discordant results have been proposed in childhood and adolescence samples. Further studies are needed to better characterize possible cognitive dysfunctions assessing more systematically the impairments of cold, hot and social cognition domains and their possible interaction in a developmental perspective. An increased knowledge on these topics will improve the definition of clinical endophenotypes of enhanced risk to progression to MDD and, to hypothesize preventive and therapeutic strategies to reduce negative influences on psychosocial functioning and well-being.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:12

Enthalten in:

Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) - 12(2022), 10 vom: 18. Okt.

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Barlati, Stefano [VerfasserIn]
Lisoni, Jacopo [VerfasserIn]
Nibbio, Gabriele [VerfasserIn]
Baldacci, Giulia [VerfasserIn]
Cicale, Andrea [VerfasserIn]
Ferrarin, Laura Chiara [VerfasserIn]
Italia, Mauro [VerfasserIn]
Zucchetti, Andrea [VerfasserIn]
Deste, Giacomo [VerfasserIn]
Vita, Antonio [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Adolescent
At-risk subjects
Cognitive functions
Cognitive vulnerability
Cold cognition
Depression
Early detection
Hot cognition
Journal Article
Review
Staging model

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Date Revised 30.10.2022

published: Electronic

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.3390/diagnostics12102525

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM348066201