Neuroimaging Analyses
depression
Resting-state functional connectivity analyses aimed to examine changes in task-free correlational networks from pre- to post-treatment. We examined (a) default mode networks known for self-control and rumination during depression and (b) salience networks responsible for emotional expression. Group independent component analysis after automatic detection and removal of motion-related artifacts [Second, emotion processing was evaluated using an implicit emotion perception task, in which subjects viewed photographs of young adult faces with happy, fearful, or calm expressions. Subjects were instructed to press a button to indicate the gender of each face, intending for the neural processing of emotion to be implicit. This task has been shown to reliably activate the amygdala in healthy youth and adults [Finally, the youth engaged in a novel problem-solving task that involved viewing both family-oriented problems (