Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology

This Special Issue aims to explore the complex interplay between rumination, cognitive performance, and depressive symptoms. In this issue we will include the latest original and exploratory empirical research from diverse perspectives to deepen our understanding of how rumination (or habitual, negative, perseverative thought processes) relates to depressive symptoms, and how both, in turn and in combination affect cognitive performance and daily functioning. We welcome manuscripts that address the following topics, including, but not limited to:

(1) the impact of rumination on cognitive performance;

(2) the effect of rumination on daily functioning;

(3) the consequences of current depression symptom range on cognition, if potentially moderated or mediated by rumination;

(4) links of trauma experiences to the emergence or exacerbation of rumination, as they relate to cognitive performance, daily functioning, and/or depression symptomatology.

The Special Issue encompasses work across the lifespan and does not need to explicitly include individuals with major depressive disorder. Samples could consist of individuals with other DSM/neurological conditions that entail high variability in depressive symptoms, such that shared and specific effects of depressive symptoms and rumination could be meaningfully parsed. Studies must include at least one metric of rumination and/or habitual, negative perseverative thinking and at least one objective metric of cognitive functioning and/or daily functioning. Of special interest is providing a series of articles that inform a constructive dialogue on how the effects of rumination could be observed and better understood in the context of cognitive performance and life functioning, such that ensuing work could address ameliorative strategies and interventions. For this Special Issue, only original articles will be accepted.