Grant: China-Canada Joint Health Research Initiative

Depression is a global phenomenon and occurs in east and west in increasing frequency. Despite the frequent occurrence there are nevertheless cultural differences in how depressive symptoms are expressed. The present project aims to better understand these cultural differences by conducting an imaging investigation on depressed patients in both Canada and China on western and eastern depressive patients respectively. Thereby the neuronal correlates of resting state activity and during self-relevant stimuli shall be explored and compared between healthy and depressed subjects as well as between chinese and canadian participants.