Effect of antidepressant medication use on emotional information processing in major depression.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Acute administration of antidepressant medication increases emotional information processing for positive information in both depressed and healthy persons. This effect is likely relevant to the therapeutic actions of these medications, but it has not been studied in patients with major depressive disorder taking antidepressants as typically prescribed in the community.

Method

The authors used eye tracking to examine the effects of antidepressant medication on selective attention for emotional stimuli in a sample of 47 patients with major depressive disorder (21 medicated and 26 unmedicated) and 47 matched comparison subjects without depression. Participants completed a passive-viewing eye-tracking task assessing selective attention for positive, dysphoric, threate

SUBMITTER: Wells TT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3946310 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature