ArticleSocial cognitive and affective neuroscience2019
Spectral fingerprints of facial affect processing bias in major depression disorder.
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- Fronto-cingulate gamma synchrony predicts deep brain stimulation response in treatment-resistant depression: preliminary evidence.Journal of psychiatry & neuroscience : JPN · 2026Article
- Weaker beta desynchronization indicates impaired emotion recognition in schizophrenia.Schizophrenia (Heidelberg, Germany) · 2025Article
- Loneliness and brain rhythmic activity in resting state: an exploratory report.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2024Article
- Attenuated post-movement beta rebound reflects psychomotor alterations in major depressive disorder during a simple visuomotor task: a MEG study.BMC psychiatry · 2023Article
- Attenuated alpha-gamma coupling in emotional dual pathways with right-Amygdala predicting ineffective antidepressant response.CNS neuroscience & therapeutics · 2022Article
- An Exploratory Study on Cross-Cultural Differences in Facial Emotion Recognition Between Adults From Malaysia and Australia.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2021Article
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Abstract
In major depressive disorder (MDD), processing of facial affect is thought to reflect a perceptual bias (toward negative emotion, away from positive emotion, and interpretation of neutral as emotional). However, it is unclear to what extent and which specific perceptual bias is represented in MDD at the behavior and neuronal level. The present report examined 48 medication naive MDD patients and 41 healthy controls (HCs) performing a facial affect judgment task while magnetoencephalography was recorded. MDD patients were characterized by overall slower response times and lower perceptual judgment accuracies. In comparison with HC, MDD patients exhibited less somatosensory beta activity (20-30 Hz) suppression, more visual gamma activity (40-80 Hz) modulation and somatosensory beta and visual gamma interaction deficit. Moreover, frontal gamma activity during positive facial expression judgment was found to be negatively correlated with depression severity. Present findings suggest that perceptual bias in MDD is associated with distinct spatio-spectral manifestations on the neural level, which potentially establishes aberrant pathways during facial emotion processing and contributes to MDD pathology.
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