ArticleDepression and anxiety2018
Deficits in emotion recognition are associated with depressive symptoms in youth with disruptive mood dysregulation disorder.
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- Annual Research Review: What processes are dysregulated among emotionally dysregulated youth? - a systematic review.Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines · 2025Pooled it
- The Association Between Emotion Recognition and Internalizing Problems in Children and Adolescents: A Three-Level Meta-Analysis.Journal of youth and adolescence · 2024Pooled it
- Diagnostic instruments for the assessment of disruptive mood dysregulation disorder: a systematic review of the literature.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2023Pooled it
- The Cognitive-Affective Social Processing and Emotion Regulation (CASPER) model.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2026Review
- The role of functional emotion circuits in distinct dimensions of psychopathology in youth.Translational psychiatry · 2024Article
- Neurocognitive and adaptive phenotypes in adolescent inpatients with mood disorders: an exploratory study on disruptive mood dysregulation disorder in the framework of depressive disorders.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Article
- Intimate Partner Violence Exposure and Childhood Psychopathology: Associations with Discriminating Fearful and Angry Faces in Young Children.Journal of family violence · 2021Article
- How and Why Are Irritability and Depression Linked?Child and adolescent psychiatric clinics of North America · 2021Review
- The Relationship Between Facial Expression and Cognitive Function in Patients With Depression.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
- On Defining Irritability and its Relationship to Affective Traits and Social Interpretations.Personality and individual differences · 2019Article
- Mentalizing Self and Other and Affect Regulation Patterns in Anorexia and Depression.Frontiers in psychology · 2019Article
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Abstract
backgroundAlthough severe irritability is a predictor of future depression according to recent meta-analytic evidence, other mechanisms for this developmental transition remain unclear. In this study, we test whether deficits in emotion recognition may partially explain this specific association in youth with severe irritability, defined as disruptive mood dysregulation disorder (DMDD).
methodsParticipants aged 8-20 years (M = 13.3, SD = 2.8) included youth with DMDD, split by low depressive (DMDD/LD; n = 52) and high depressive (DMDD/HD; n = 25) symptoms, and healthy controls (HC; n = 39). A standardized computer task assessed emotion recognition of faces and voices of adults and children expressing happiness, fear, sadness, and anger. A Group (3) × Emotion (4) × Actor (2) × Modality (2) repeated measures analysis of covariance examined the number of errors and misidentification of emotions. Linear regression was then used to assess whether deficits in emotion recognition were predictive of depressive symptoms at a 1 year follow-up.
resultsDMDD/HD youth were more likely to interpret happy stimuli as angry and fearful compared to DMDD/LD (happy as angry: p = 0.018; happy as fearful: p = 0.008) and HC (happy as angry: p = 0.014; happy as fearful: p = 0.024). In youth with DMDD, the misidentification of happy stimuli as fearful was associated with higher depressive symptoms at follow-up (β = 0.43, p = 0.017), independent of baseline depressive and irritability symptoms.
conclusionsDeficits in emotion recognition are associated, cross-sectionally and longitudinally, with depressive symptoms in youth with severe irritability. Future studies should examine the neural correlates that contribute to these associations.
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