Face Emotion Perception and Executive Functioning Deficits in Depression

Langenecker, Scott A.; Bieliauskas, Linas A.; Rapport, Lisa J.; Zubieta, Jon Kar; Wilde, Elisabeth A.; Berent, Stanley

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“…This view would be consistent with a recent meta-analysis by Fusar-Poli et al (2006), in which acute trytophan depletion was found to modulate cortical activity in areas that are Langenecker et al (2005). The authors reported executive impairments and deficits in the perception of emotional faces that were unrelated in depressed patients.…”

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“…Emotional prosody is more demanding than facial affect processing, as accuracy scores for the perception of emotional faces are usually higher than prosody accuracy scores (Johnstone & Scherer, 2000). In addition, depressed women in the study by Langenecker et al (2005) were not inpatients and depression levels were relatively low.…”

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confidence: 87%

“…In a recent study by Langenecker et al (2005), depressed women showed significant facial affect perception deficits and impairments of inhibitory control, which were unrelated. However, participants were outpatients and depression severity, as assessed by the Beck Depression Inventory, was relatively mild.…”

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Perception of affective prosody in major depression: A link to executive functions?

Uekermann

Abdel‐Hamid

Lehmkämper

et al. 2008

J Int Neuropsychol Soc

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Major depression is associated with impairments of executive functions and affect perception deficits, both being linked to dysfunction of fronto-subcortical networks. So far, little is known about the relationship between cognitive and affective deficits in major depression. In the present investigation, affect perception and executive functions were assessed in 29 patients with a diagnosis of major depression (Dep) and 29 healthy controls (HC). Both groups were comparable on IQ, age, and gender distribution. Depressed patients showed deficits of perception of affective prosody, which were significantly related to inhibition, set shifting, and working memory. Our findings suggest a significant association between cognitive deficits and affect perception impairments in major depression, which may be of considerable clinical relevance and might be addressed in treatment approaches. Future studies are desirable to investigate the nature of the association in more detail. (JINS, 2008, 14, 552-561.)

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Perception of affective prosody in major depression: A link to executive functions?

Uekermann

Abdel‐Hamid

Lehmkämper

et al. 2008

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“…It has been found that patients with acute depressive episodes are less accurate in classifying emotional content and less effective in inhibiting attention to it than healthy controls. 28,29 These deficits are accompanied by altered functioning of the frontal and cingulate cortex as well as subcortical regions, such as the amygdala and basal ganglia. [30][31][32] Family history of MDD may enhance these tendencies.…”

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Recruitment of the left hemispheric emotional attention neural network in risk for and protection from depression

Lisiecka

Carballedo

Fagan

et al. 2013

J Psychiatry Neurosci

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IntroductionIndividuals with a first-degree relative who has major depressive disorder (MDD) are at a 2-to 3-fold greater risk for depression than those without a family history of MDD. 1 Rela tives of depressed patients, compared with individuals without family history of psychiatric disorders, are characterized by elevated neuroticism, depressive cognitions and rigidity 2 and by stability of these traits over time.3 Patients with MDD who had relatives with an affective disorder display greater neuroticism 4 and have an earlier age of onset of MDD. 5 Evidently, family history of MDD alters susceptibility to depression and to an acute MDD episode. The factor is clinically important since it involves mechanisms of elevated risk for MDD (relatives of patients with MDD compared with healthy controls), suggests relative resilience to the disease (relatives of patients with MDD compared with the patients themselves) and points to different endophenotypes of healthy controls and patients with MDD. A good understanding of these mechanisms should not be underestimated if diagnosis, therapy and prevention of the disorder are to be enhanced. Background: Family history of major depressive disorder (MDD) increases individuals' vulnerability to depression and alters the way depression manifests itself. Emotion processing and attention shifting are functions altered by MDD and family history of the disease; therefore, it is important to recognize the neural correlates of these functions in association with both factors. Methods: Our study determines neural correlates of emotion processing and attention shifting for healthy individuals and patients with MDD with and without family history of depression. We compared the performance and neural activity in a functional magnetic resonance imaging experiment examining emotion processing and attention shifting in all participants. Results: Our sample included 4 study groups: healthy controls without family history of depression (n = 25), patients with MDD without family history of the disease (n = 20), unaffected healthy first-degree relatives of patients with MDD (n = 21) and patients with MDD with family history of MDD (n = 30). Compared with healthy controls, unaffected first-degree relatives overactivate the somatosensory cortex and the attention controlling areas during both emotion processing and attention shifting. Patients with family history of MDD have stronger neural activation in subcortical areas during shifting attention from negative stimuli. Patients without family history of MDD have less activation in the paralimbic regions and more activation in core limbic areas, especially during emotion processing. Limitations: The conclusions about the intergroup differences in activation can be drawn only about neural areas engaged in the task. Conclusion: Unaffected first-degree relatives of patients with MDD overreact to external emotional cues and compensate for the vulnerability with increased involvement of executive control. Patients with a family history of MDD have le...

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“…Certains auteurs montrent que la reconnaissance de l'ensemble des émotions est modifiée par la dépression et entraîne des cognitions erronées [26,38]. Cependant, le lien entre émotion et cognition reste imprécis [3,30].…”

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Reconnaissance visuelle des émotions faciales au cours d’un trouble dépressif majeur de type mélancolie délirante

Bridoux¹,

Granato²

2010

Annales Médico-psychologiques, revue psychiatrique

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Please cite this article as: Bridoux A, Granato Ph, Reconnaissance visuelle desémotions faciales au cours d'un trouble dépressif majeur de type mélancolie délirante, Annales medio-psychologiques (2010), doi:10.1016/j.amp.2009.11.005 This is a PDF file of an unedited manuscript that has been accepted for publication. As a service to our customers we are providing this early version of the manuscript. The manuscript will undergo copyediting, typesetting, and review of the resulting proof before it is published in its final form. Please note that during the production process errors may be discovered which could affect the content, and all legal disclaimers that apply to the journal pertain. Durant la dépression, la joie est l'émotion la plus précocement atteinte mais la plus sensible à la thérapeutique. En outre, une confusion dans la reconnaissance de la colère et la peur apparaît. La gradation dans l'intensité des scores laisse supposer non pas un seul système émotionnel mais sept sous-systèmes émotionnels distincts, dont l'intensité de réponse est proportionnelle au trouble de l'humeur. Ce travail doit être étendu à une population de Objectives -To evaluate ARFE following the Analysis method and the search for emotional integration (MARIE).This tool uses a continuation of fictive portraits created from two real portraits and in varying proportions (Professor Eckman's portraits with his agreement). This is an emotional series which can be either unipolar or bipolar (neutral/emotion, emotion/emotion).The subject has to choose between two possibilities for each portrait.The programme comprises nine series of 19 pictures of three different faces (a fairhaired woman, a dark-haired woman and a man).Statistical Analysis -An average between the 2 evaluations (X² test) can be compared according to the patient's answers.Comparison of results between patient's answers before and after the treatment and results before and after of a standard reference which is, by definition, 100%.Comparing the averages of time answering between the 2 evaluations (Student test) by logarithms.Results -The joy would be the emotion most sensitive to improve the mood and thus therapy. Conversely, recognition of fear and surprise would be the less sensitive. There would be a gradient answer of qualitative (type of emotion) and quantitative (intensity score) over treatment.The patient hardly recognizes the sadness at the opposite of the anger. There would be a hypo sensibility to sadness or hypersensitivity to anger in a major depression.However, the disorder varies according to the face presented.Page 3 of 20 A c c e p t e d M a n u s c r i p t 3 Discussion -We report the results of a unique case and we must remain critical.However, the results are in the line with most writers. It credits the interest of the measurement tool.The graduation in the intensity of the scores suggests does not suggest a single system but 7 emotional subsystems separated which intensity of the response is proportional to the mood disorder.This work should be exte...

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Face Emotion Perception and Executive Functioning Deficits in Depression

Cited by 173 publications

References 63 publications

Perception of affective prosody in major depression: A link to executive functions?

Perception of affective prosody in major depression: A link to executive functions?

Recruitment of the left hemispheric emotional attention neural network in risk for and protection from depression

Reconnaissance visuelle des émotions faciales au cours d’un trouble dépressif majeur de type mélancolie délirante

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