Empathic behavioral and physiological responses to dynamic stimuli in depression

Schneider, Daniel; Regenbogen, Christina; Kellermann, Thilo; Finkelmeyer, Andreas; Kohn, Nils; Derntl, Birgit; Schneider, Frank; Habel, Ute

doi:10.1016/j.psychres.2012.03.054

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“…With respect to affective empathy, some studies reported that patients with MDD showed a significantly higher level of PD compared to controls (12,30,31). Batson et al (4) hypothesized that the emotional pain associated with empathic distress may cause depressed individuals to show less EC.…”

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Relationship between empathic responding and its clinical characteristics in patients with major depressive disorder

Ekinci¹,

Ekinci²

2016

Dusunen Adam

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Relationship between empathic responding and its clinical characteristics in patients with major depressive disorder Objective: To our knowledge, there is no study specifically examining the relation between empathic responding and clinical features in patients with major depressive disorder (MDD). Our aim was to examine cognitive and affective empathic responding in patients with MDD and to explore the possible relations between clinical features and empathy. Method:The sociodemographic and clinical properties of 83 patients with major depression were recorded. The Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) was used to assess severity of depression, whereas the Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI) was used to assess anxiety. Hopelessness level was measured by Beck Hopelessness Scale (BHS). Patients' empathic ability was evaluated by using the Interpersonel Reactivity Index (IRI), and results were compared with 85 healthy controls. We used Pearson correlation and general linear model analysis to evaluate the manner in which the variables contributed to the IRI scores.Results: Perspective Taking (IRI-PT), Empathic Concern (IRI-EC), and Fantasy (IRI-FS) subscores were all substantially lower in subjects with depression than in healthy controls, while the Personal Distress (IRI-PD) subscore was higher than in healthy subjects. There were significant effects of gender on the scores of IRI-EC and IRI-FS. Lower IRI-FS and IRI-PD scores were found to be significantly related to high suicide risk in depression.Conclusion: Based on our results, patients with major depressive disorder show significantly impaired empathy measures compared to the normal population. Our findings also suggest a close relationship between suicidality and empathy in patients with MDD.Keywords: Empathy, gender, hopelessness, major depressive disorder, suicide ÖZET Majör depresif bozukluğu olan hastalarda empati yanıtı ve klinik özelliklerle ilişkisiAmaç: Bildiğimiz kadarıyla majör depresif bozukluklu hastalarda empatik cevaplarla klinik özellikler arasındaki ilişkiyi araştıran herhangi bir çalışma yoktur. Amacımız majör depresif bozukluklu hastalarda duygusal ve bilişsel empati cevabını değerlendirmek ve empatinin klinik özelliklerle olan muhtemel ilişkisini araştırmaktır. Sonuç: Bulgularımıza dayanarak depresif bozukluklu hastalarda normal popülasyona göre anlamlı olarak bozulmuş empati ölçümleri olduğu söylenebilir. Ayrıca bulgularımız depresif olgularda intihar ve empati arasında yakın bir ilişki olduğuna işaret etmektedir.

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Relationship between empathic responding and its clinical characteristics in patients with major depressive disorder

Ekinci¹,

Ekinci²

2016

Dusunen Adam

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“…It has been suggested that core to these social difficulties are reduced sensitivity and impaired decoding of both static and dynamic nonverbal emotional cues (Bylsma et al, 2008;Lee, Harkness, Sabbagh, & Jacobson, 2005;Nesse, 2000;Rottenberg, 2005;Rottenberg & Gross, 2007;Schneider et al, 2012), which further lead to deficits in empathizing with other social actors (Donges et al, 2005;Fujino et al, 2014;Schneider et al, 2012). Interestingly, in the context of this literature, the present data raise the possibility that the reduced SPL-FPC functional connectivity, observed not only among healthy women experiencing greater levels of sadness, but also among those evidencing subclinical depressive symptoms may constitute the neural mechanism underlying the aforementioned depression-related inattention to nonverbal social-affective cues (Bylsma et al, 2008;Lee et al, 2005;Nesse, 2000;Rottenberg, 2005;Rottenberg & Gross, 2007;Schneider et al, 2012). Tests of this hypothesis entail investigation of several intermediary assumptions.…”

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Inter-individual differences in the experience of negative emotion predict variations in functional brain architecture

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Saverino

Rosenbaum

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Current evidence suggests that two spatially distinct neuroanatomical networks, the dorsal attention network (DAN) and the default mode network (DMN), support externally and internally oriented cognition, respectively, and are functionally regulated by a third, frontoparietal control network (FPC). Interactions among these networks contribute to normal variations in cognitive functioning and to the aberrant affective profiles present in certain clinical conditions, such as major depression. Nevertheless, their links to non-clinical variations in affective functioning are still poorly understood. To address this issue, we used fMRI to measure the intrinsic functional interactions among these networks in a sample of predominantly younger women (N = 162) from the Human Connectome Project. Consistent with the previously documented dichotomous motivational orientations (i.e., withdrawal versus approach) associated with sadness versus anger, we hypothesized that greater sadness would predict greater DMN (rather than DAN) functional dominance, whereas greater anger would predict the opposite. Overall, there was evidence of greater DAN (rather than DMN) functional dominance, but this pattern was modulated by current experience of specific negative emotions, as well as subclinical depressive and anxiety symptoms. Thus, greater levels of currently experienced sadness and subclinical depression independently predicted weaker DAN functional dominance (i.e., weaker DAN-FPC functional connectivity), likely reflecting reduced goal-directed attention towards the external perceptual environment. Complementarily, greater levels of currently experienced anger and subclinical anxiety predicted greater DAN functional dominance (i.e., greater DAN-FPC functional connectivity and, for anxiety only, also weaker DMN-FPC coupling). Our findings suggest that distinct affective states Negative mood states foster internally oriented attention and perceptual decoupling from the here-and-now (Smallwood, O'Connor, Sudbery, & Obonsawin, 2007;Smallwood, Fitzgerald, Miles, & Phillips, 2009). Nevertheless, the neural signature and unique contribution of distinct negative emotions to this effect of mood on engagement with the external world have not been identified despite their significance to both normal and pathological variations in emotional functioning. To address this issue, the present research capitalized on existing evidence that the human brain is organized into dissociable anatomical networks (Fox & Raichle, 2007), which provide a latent functional architecture that is readily recruited during goal-directed cognition (Laird et al., 2011;Smith et al., 2009). Importantly, recent investigations have documented the key role that these intrinsic functional networks play in supporting not only cognitive, but also affective processes (i.e., emotion experience and perception, cf. Touroutoglou, Lindquist, Dickerson, & Barrett, in press), including those observed during experimentally induced variations in mood states (e.g., sadness, Harri...

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“…Indeed, Schneider et al (2012) used short audio/video clips in which actors expose emotional narratives and found that MDDs exhibit a general emotion processing deficit (happiness, sadness, fear, and disgust). Naranjo et al (2011) used musical, vocal, and static facial stimuli and found that depressed subjects are less accurate than the control group in all the three emotion recognition tasks.…”

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“…This states that it is a universal and innate human ability to recognize the facial expressions corresponding to the six emotions called basic or primary (happiness, surprise, disgust, sadness, fear, and anger). The effectiveness of people with depression in decoding emotional expressions through photos was investigated with several methodologies, including the morphing task (Bediou et al, 2005;Joormann and Gotlib, 2006;Gilboa-Schechtman et al, 2008;LeMoult et al, 2009;Schaefer et al, 2010;Aldinger et al, 2013), the emotion recognition task (Kan et al, 2004;Leppänen et al, 2004;Gollan et al, 2008Gollan et al, , 2010Uekermann et al, 2008;Wright et al, 2009;Douglas and Porter, 2010;Milders et al, 2010;Naranjo et al, 2011;Punkanen et al, 2011;Péron et al, 2011;Watters and Williams, 2011;Schneider et al, 2012;Schlipf et al, 2013;Chen et al, 2014), the emotion attentional task (Gotlib et al, 2004;Joormann and Gotlib, 2007;Leyman et al, 2007;Kellough et al, 2008;Sanchez et al, 2013;Duque and Vázquez, 2014), the matching task (Milders et al, 2010;Liu et al, 2012;Chen et al, 2014), and the dot-probe detection task (Fritzsche et al, 2010).…”

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How Major Depressive Disorder Affects the Ability to Decode Multimodal Dynamic Emotional Stimuli

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Most studies investigating the processing of emotions in depressed patients reported impairments in the decoding of negative emotions. However, these studies adopted static stimuli (mostly stereotypical facial expressions corresponding to basic emotions) which do not reflect the way people experience emotions in everyday life. For this reason, this work proposes to investigate the decoding of emotional expressions in patients affected by recurrent major depressive disorder (RMDD) using dynamic audio/ video stimuli. RMDDs' performance is compared with the performance of patients with adjustment disorder with depressed mood (ADs) and healthy (HCs) subjects. The experiments involve 27 RMDDs (16 with acute depression -RMDD-A and 11 in a compensation phase -RMDD-C), 16 Ads, and 16 HCs. The ability to decode emotional expressions is assessed through an emotion recognition task based on short audio (without video), video (without audio), and audio/video clips. The results show that AD patients are significantly less accurate than HCs in decoding fear, anger, happiness, surprise, and sadness. RMDD-As with acute depression are significantly less accurate than HCs in decoding happiness, sadness, and surprise. Finally, no significant differences were found between HCs and RMDD-Cs in a compensation phase. The different communication channels and the types of emotion play a significant role in limiting the decoding accuracy.

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Empathic behavioral and physiological responses to dynamic stimuli in depression

Cited by 70 publications

References 86 publications

Relationship between empathic responding and its clinical characteristics in patients with major depressive disorder

Relationship between empathic responding and its clinical characteristics in patients with major depressive disorder

Inter-individual differences in the experience of negative emotion predict variations in functional brain architecture

How Major Depressive Disorder Affects the Ability to Decode Multimodal Dynamic Emotional Stimuli

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