Remembrance of happy things past: positive autobiographical memories are intrinsically rewarding and valuable, but not in depression

Front Psychol. 2015 Mar 3:6:222. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00222. eCollection 2015.

¹ Department of Psychiatry, Hokkaido University Graduate School of Medicine Sapporo, Japan.
² Department of Behavioral Science, Center for Experimental Research in Social Sciences, Hokkaido University Sapporo, Japan.
³ Department of Psychology, University of Rhode Island Kingston, RI, USA.

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Keywords: autobiographical memory; depression; medial prefrontal cortex; positive emotion; resiliency; reward; striatum; value.