In patients with major depressive disorders, depression, stress axis activity and problem solving skills as a proxy of executive functions are unrelated

• Published in: European psychiatry Vol. 41; no. S1; p. S524
• Main Authors: Brand, S., Hatzinger, M., Hemmeter, U.M., Bahmani, D. Sadeghi, Holsboer-Trachsler, E.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier Masson SAS 01.04.2017

Major depressive disorders (MDD) are among the most prevalent psychiatric disorders worldwide. While there is abundant literature showing that an increased cortisol secretion, understood as a proxy of the deteriorated hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenocortical axis activity (HPA AA), and poor cognitive p...