ArticleThe Journal of international medical research2017
Attentional bias scores in patients with depression and effects of age: a controlled, eye-tracking study.
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- Emotional stimulation processing characteristics in depression: Meta-analysis of eye tracking findings.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Pooled it
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- The neurophysiological consequences of racism-related stressors in Black Americans.Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews · 2024Review
- Eye-tracking evidence of a relationship between attentional bias for emotional faces and depression severity in patients with treatment-resistant depression.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Deployment of attention to facial expressions varies as a function of emotional quality-but not in alexithymic individuals.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Article
- Depression and emotion regulation strategy use moderate age-related attentional positivity bias.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Current development of biosensing technologies towards diagnosis of mental diseases.Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology · 2023Review
- Clinically elevated depression scores do not produce negative attentional biases in caregivers of autistic children.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Article
- Intact face detection in young patients with major depressive disorder revealed by the face-specific N170 component.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Comparing emotional working memory in adolescents and young adults with and without depressive symptoms: developmental and psychopathological differences.BMC psychology · 2022Article
- Disease Classification Based on Eye Movement Features With Decision Tree and Random Forest.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2020Article
- EEG-based mild depression recognition using convolutional neural network.Medical & biological engineering & computing · 2019Article
- Depressive Symptoms in Late Pregnancy Disrupt Attentional Processing of Negative-Positive Emotion: An Eye-Movement Study.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2019Article
- Free viewing of sad and happy faces in depression: A potential target for attention bias modification.Journal of affective disorders · 2018Article
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Abstract
Objective To compare the attentional bias of depressed patients and non-depressed control subjects and examine the effects of age using eye-tracking technology in a free-viewing set of tasks. Methods Patients with major depressive disorder (MDD) and non-depressed control subjects completed an eye-tracking task to assess attention of processing negative, positive and neutral facial expressions. In this cross-sectional study, the tasks were separated in two types (neutral versus happy faces and neutral versus sad faces) and assessed in two age groups ('young' [18-30 years] and 'middle-aged' [31-55 years]). Results Compared with non-depressed control subjects ( n = 75), patients with MDD ( n = 90) had a significant reduced positive attentional bias and enhanced negative attentional bias irrespective of age. The positive attentional bias in 'middle-aged' patients with MDD was significantly lower than in 'young' patients, although there was no difference between the two age groups in negative attentional bias. Conclusions These results confirm that there are emotional attentional biases in patients with MDD and that positive attentional biases are influenced by age.
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