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Reduced accuracy accompanied by reduced neural activity during the performance of an emotional conflict task by unmedicated patients with major depression: A CAN-BIND fMRI study.
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Journal of affective disorders [J Affect Disord] 2019 Oct 01; Vol. 257, pp. 765-773. Date of Electronic Publication: 2019 Jul 06. - Publication Year :
- 2019
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Abstract
- Methods: We studied 48 MDD and 30 HC who performed an emotional conflict task in a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scanner.<br />Results: On the emotional conflict task, MDD and HC demonstrated a robust emotional Stroop effect in reaction time and accuracy. Overall, accuracy was lower in MDD compared to HC with no significant reaction time differences. The fMRI data indicated lower BOLD activation in MDD compared to HC on comparisons of all trials, congruent, incongruent, and incongruent > congruent trials in regions including right inferior temporal gyrus, lateral occipital cortex, and occipital fusiform gyrus. Behavioural and neuroimaging data indicated no group differences in fearful versus happy face processing.<br />Limitations: Inclusion of a neutral condition may have provided a valuable contrast to how MDD and HC process stimuli without emotional valence compared to stimuli with a strong emotional valence.<br />Conclusions: MDD and HC demonstrated a robust emotional Stroop effect. Compared to HC, MDD demonstrated an overall reduced accuracy on the emotional conflict task and reduced BOLD activity in regions important for face perception and emotion information processing, with no differences in responding to fearful versus happy faces. These findings provide support for the theory of emotion context insensitivity in individuals with depression.<br /> (Copyright © 2019 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.)
- Subjects :
- Adult
Cognition
Depressive Disorder, Major diagnostic imaging
Depressive Disorder, Major psychology
Facial Recognition
Female
Humans
Male
Occipital Lobe diagnostic imaging
Occipital Lobe physiopathology
Reaction Time
Stroop Test
Conflict, Psychological
Depressive Disorder, Major physiopathology
Emotions physiology
Magnetic Resonance Imaging methods
Task Performance and Analysis
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 1573-2517
- Volume :
- 257
- Database :
- MEDLINE
- Journal :
- Journal of affective disorders
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 31400735
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2019.07.037