Journal of Affective Disorders
Volume 84, Issue 1 , Pages 63-72 , January 2005

Are there attentional deficits in people putatively at risk for affective disorders?

  • Thomas D. Meyer

      Affiliations

    • University of Tübingen, Germany
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Eberhard Karls University—Psychological Institute, Department of Clinical and Physiological Psychology, Christophstrasse 2, 72072 Tübingen, Germany. Fax: +49 7071 295219.
    • ,
  • Jens Blechert

      Affiliations

    • University of Basel, Switzerland

Received 11 June 2004 ,Revised 28 September 2004 ,Accepted 4 October 2004.

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Journal of Affective Disorders
Volume 84, Issue 1 , Pages 63-72 , January 2005

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