ArticleFrontiers in psychology2021
Differences in Facial Expression Recognition Between Unipolar and Bipolar Depression.
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- Facial emotion recognition deficits in bipolar disorder: A systematic review and meta-analysis.European psychiatry : the journal of the Association of European Psychiatrists · 2026Pooled it
- Low mood, not anxiety, connected with micro facial expression recognition.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Comparative Efficacy of MultiModal AI Methods in Screening for Major Depressive Disorder: Machine Learning Model Development Predictive Pilot Study.JMIR formative research · 2025Article
- An open label pilot study of micro expression recognition training as an intervention for low mood.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Relationship between low mood and micro-expression processing: evidence of negative bias in interpreting fleeting facial expressions.Royal Society open science · 2024Article
- Characterizing Unipolar and Bipolar Depression by Alterations in Inflammatory Mediators and the Prefrontal-Limbic Structural Network.Depression and anxiety · 2023Article
- Working memory updating in individuals with bipolar and unipolar depression: fMRI study.Translational psychiatry · 2022Article
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Abstract
purposeTo explore the differences in facial emotion recognition among patients with unipolar depression (UD), bipolar depression (BD), and normal controls.
methodsThirty patients with UD and 30 patients with BD, respectively, were recruited in Zhumadian Second People's Hospital from July 2018 to August 2019. Fifteen groups of facial expressions including happiness, sadness, anger, surprise, fear, and disgust were identified.
resultsA single-factor ANOVA was used to analyze the facial expression recognition results of the three groups, and the differences were found in the happy-sad (
conclusionPatients with UD had lower performance in recognizing negative expressions and had longer recognition times. Those with BD had lower accuracy in recognizing positive expressions and longer recognition times. Rapid facial expression recognition performance may be as a potential endophenotype for early identification of unipolar and BD.
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