explanation Enhanced memory for emotional events is a well-recognised phenomenon that has an obvious adaptive value in evolutionary terms, because it is vital to remember both dangerous and favourable situations. Across individuals, differences in the strength of emotional memories are associated with the vulnerability to develop mood disorders and to maintain them. This symposium will firstly aim at identifying the neural underpinnings of emotional memory bias in healthy controls and depressive patients and then relate interindividual differences in behaviour to common genetic polymorphisms associated with depression.
aim At the end of the session the participant will be able to explain the neural correlates of memory bias and its relation to depression.