Recognition of disgusted facial expressions in severe depression
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Summary: Facial emotion processing was examined in patients with severe depression (n = 68) and a healthy control group (n = 50), using the Facial Expression Recognition Task. A negative interpretation bias was observed in the depression group: neutral faces were more likely to be interpreted as sad and less likely to be interpreted as happy, compared with controls. The depression group also displayed a specific deficit in the recognition of facial expressions of disgust, compared with controls. This may relate to impaired functioning of frontostriatal structures, particularly the basal ganglia.
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Studies of patients with bipolar disorder in a depressed phase reveal a mood-congruent bias in emotion perception tasks, including difficulty labelling happy faces and a tendency to misinterpret neutral facial stimuli as sad and happy faces as angry.
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- Authors
- Douglas, K. M., & Porter, R. J.
- Affiliations
- University of Otago (NZ)
- Corresponding author
- Porter, Richard J.
- Venue
- British Journal of Psychiatry
- Publisher
- Royal College of Psychiatrists
- Published
- 2010-08
- Volume
- 197
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 156-157
- ISSN
- 0007-1250 (ISSN-L)
- 1472-1465
- OpenAlex
- W2135090800
- Cited by
- 86
- References
- 10
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- FWCI
- 5.04
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- The British Journal of Psychiatry (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- Tertiary Education Commission
- 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
- severe depression, facial expression recognition, disgust, emotional face processing, negative interpretation bias, sadness, happiness, frontostriatal dysfunction, basal ganglia
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Analysis of Variance, Depressive Disorder, Major, Major Depressive Disorder, Emotions, Facial Expression, Female, Humans, Male, Case-Control Studies, Recognition, Psychology
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