In the absence of current symptoms, individuals with remitted major depressive disorder showed reduced frontopolar processing of stimuli showing social interactions, a reduction not seen for stimuli showing individual successes and failures and, therefore, not simply an effect of emotional valence.
These results suggest a specific trait abnormality in social emotional processing associated with vulnerability to depression, which may have implications for understanding social cognition mechanisms and for developing effective psychological therapies.
2012-01-03
Eng.
Archives of general psychiatry
Neuroscience and Psychiatry Unit, University of Manchester, Manchester, England. Rebecca.elliott [at] manchester.ac.uk
Arch Gen Psychiatry. 2012 Jan;69(1):37-45
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