C'mon get happy: reduced magnitude and duration of response during a positive-affect induction in depression.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Depression involves decreased positive affect. Whether this is due to a failure to achieve or maintain positive emotion in response to discrete stimuli is unclear. Understanding the nature of decreased positive affect could help to address how to intervene in the phenomenon, for example, how to structure interventions using positive and rewarding stimuli in depression. Thus, we examined the time course of affect following exposure to positive stimuli in depressed and healthy individuals.

Methods

Seventy-one adults with major depressive disorder and thirty-four never-depressed controls read a self-generated highly positive script and continuously rated their affect for 7 min.

Results

Both groups quickly achieved increased positive affect, however, compared t

SUBMITTER: Horner MS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4422486 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature