Anhedonia severity mediates the relationship between attentional networks recruitment and emotional blunting during music listening.

ABSTRACT: Emotion studies have commonly reported impaired emotional processing in individuals with heightened anhedonic depressive symptoms, as typically measured by collecting single subjective ratings for a given emotional cue. However, the interindividual variation in moment-to-moment emotional reactivity, and associated time-varying brain networks recruitment as emotions are unfolding, remains unclear. In this study, we filled this gap by using the unique temporal characteristics of music to investigate behavioural and brain network dynamics as a function of anhedonic depressive symptoms severity. Thirty-one neurotypical participants aged 18-30 years completed anhedonic depression questionnaires and then continuously rated happy, neutral and sad pieces of music whilst undergoing MRI scanning. Us

SUBMITTER: Cahart MS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11358146 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature