Automatic emotion processing in major depression: genes, brain, and cognitive bias
U Dannlowski, P Ohrmann, J Bauer, C Konrad, S Schöning, J Deckert, C Hohoff, H Kugel, V Arolt, W Heindel, A Kersting, B Baune, T Suslow · Klinische Neurophysiologie · 2008 · Heft 04
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In a series of multidisciplinary studies, the authors investigated automatic stages of emotion processing in major depression by means of neuropsychological paradigms, neuroimaging (fMRI), and the imaging genetics approach. All studies made use of backward-masked presentations of emotional faces which successfully prevented the subjects from consciously perceiving the emotional stimuli. In a first longitudinal study, we demonstrated that depressed patients show negatively biased automatic evaluative processes using a masked affective priming task. The degree of automatic evaluative bias was associated with poor…
