Impaired recognition of affect in facial expression in depressed patients
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Measures of recognition of seven affects in facial and verbal expressions to 17 depressed patients and 31 controls were administered. Depressed patients were significantly impaired in the recognition of affect in the facial, but not verbal, expressions. Among the seven affects examined, depressed patients made significantly or near significantly fewer correct matches for sad, happy, and interested face items. The performance of the depressed patients was similar to that observed by Kolb and Taylor in patients with right, but not left, hemisphere cortical excisions. The neurobiology of facial recognition is reviewed, and the relevance of the observed perceptual deficit in depressed patients to the pathophysiology and symptomatology of depression is discussed.
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Deficits in identifying facial emotions have been consistently reported in depression.
“Deficits in identifying facial emotions have been consistently reported in depression (e.g.Feinberg et al. 1986;Rubinow and Post 1992;Persad and Polivy 1993).”
From Affective Cognition and its Disruption in Mood Disorders (2011) · cites this paper as Rubinow and Post 1992
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- Authors
- Rubinow, D. R., & Post, R. M.
- Affiliations
- National Institute of Mental Health (US)
- Corresponding author
- Rubinow, David R.
- Venue
- Biological Psychiatry
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 1992-05
- Volume
- 31
- Issue
- 9
- Pages
- 947-953
- ISSN
- 0006-3223 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2095499283
- Cited by
- 264
- References
- 27
- Citations by year
- 2025: 2 · 2024: 8 · 2023: 9 · 2022: 5 · 2021: 13 · 2020: 6 · 2019: 10 · 2018: 5 · 2017: 3 · 2016: 8 · 2015: 7 · 2014: 11 · 2013: 12 · 2012: 15
- FWCI
- 1.26
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Biological Psychiatry (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Face Recognition and Perception
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Keywords
- depression, facial expression recognition, verbal expression, emotion perception, right hemisphere, hemispheric lateralization, depression pathophysiology
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Affect, Depressive Disorder, Discrimination Learning, Dominance, Cerebral, Facial Expression, Female, Hospitalization, Humans, Male, Mental Recall, Verbal Behavior
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