The Positive Effect of Negative Stimuli: Exposure to Negative Emotional Stimuli Improves Mood in Individuals with Major Depressive Disorder.

ABSTRACT: Background: Cognitive biases in information processing, particularly attentional and memory biases, play a crucial role in the development and maintenance of Major Depressive Disorder (MDD). These biases lead individuals with MDD to preferentially attend to and remember negative information, thereby maintaining a depressed mood. A recently proposed attentional resources model suggests that exposure to negative stimuli leads to deeper cognitive processing of subsequent information, regardless of its content. Based on this model, the current study investigated a novel paradigm that manipulated exposure to negative emotional stimuli and examined its effect on information processing and mood improvement. Method: Thirty-eight unmedicated participants with MDD and no comorbid disor

SUBMITTER: Miron S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12429692 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature