Table 1.

Overview of studies related to neuropsychological deficits in depression.

Authors	Patients N	Population	Age	Neuropsychological examination
Borkowska and Rybakowski, 2001. [124]	30	rDD +	–	Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale-Revised (WAIS-R)
	15	Bipolar depression		Trail Making Test (TMT)
				Stroop test
				Verbal fluency test (VFT)
				Wisconsin Card Sorting Test (WCST)
Vinkers et al., 2004. [11]	500	Population based study	>85	Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE)
				Stroop test
				Auditory Verbal Learning Test (AVLT)
				Letter digit coding test
Talarowska et al., 2010. [23]	30	rDD	18–60	AVLT
	57	Healthy controls +		Stroop test
Castaneda et al., 2010. [12]	126	rDD	21–35	Verbal and visual short-term memory
	71	health controls +		Verbal long-term memory and learning
				Attention
				Processing Speer
				Executive functions
Schaub et al., 2013. [13]	74	Major depression +	–	Verbal and visual short-term memory
	38	Schizophrenia		Verbal fluency
				Visual-motor coordination
				Information processing
				Selective attention