ArticleJournal of psychiatry & neuroscience : JPN2021
Depressive rumination is correlated with brain responses during self-related processing.
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- Association Between Childhood Trauma and Somatization in a Clinical Sample: The Mediating Roles of Rumination, Cognitive Reappraisal, and Expressive Suppression.Psychiatry investigation · 2026Article
- Reflection Rumination Reduces Negative Emotional Processing During Goal-Directed Behavior: An ERP Study.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Brain State Relays Self-Processing and Heartbeat-Evoked Cortical Responses.Brain sciences · 2023Review
- Abnormal global signal topography of self modulates emotion dysregulation in major depressive disorder.Translational psychiatry · 2023Article
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Abstract
backgroundRumination, a tendency to focus on negative self-related thoughts, is a central symptom of depression. Studying the self-related aspect of such symptoms is challenging because of the need to distinguish self effects from the emotional content of task stimuli. This study employed an emotionally neutral self-related paradigm to investigate possible altered self-processing in depression and its link to rumination.
methodsPeople with major depressive disorder (
resultsParticipants with major depressive disorder displayed a difference in late positive potentials across frontocentral electrodes between self-related and non-self-related conditions. We found no such difference in controls. The magnitude of this difference was positively correlated with depressive symptoms and reported rumination. Participants with major depressive disorder also had elevated theta oscillation power at central electrodes in self-related conditions, a finding that we did not see in controls. LIMITATIONS: Patients with major depressive disorder were medicated at the time of the study. The group studied was primarily female, so the observed effects may have been sex-specific.
conclusionRumination appears to be linked to altered self-related processing in depression, independent of stimuli-related emotional confounds. This connection between self-related processing and depression may point to a self disorder as a core component of depression.
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