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Effects of genetic information on memory for severity of depressive symptoms

Peer-Reviewed Publication

PLOS

Genetic information about depression may lead to over-diagnosis: experiments suggest that when told about a person's genetic predisposition to depression, participants are more likely to remember their symptoms as severe

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Article Title:

"Effects of genetic information on memory for severity of depressive symptoms"

Funding:

This work was supported by research funding provided to W.A. by Yale University. M.L received support from the National Institutes of Health (grant K99HG010084).

Competing Interests:

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Article URL:

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0239714


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