Emotion Regulating Attentional Control Abnormalities In Major Depressive Disorder: An Event-Related Potential Study.

ABSTRACT: Major depressive disorders (MDD) exhibit cognitive dysfunction with respect to attention. The deficiencies in cognitive control of emotional information are associated with MDD as compared to healthy controls (HC). However, the brain mechanism underlying emotion that influences the attentional control in MDD necessitates further research. The present study explores the emotion-regulated cognitive competence in MDD at a dynamic attentional stage. Event-Related Potentials (ERPs) were recorded from 35 clinical MDD outpatients and matched HCs by applying a modified affective priming dot-probe paradigm, which consisted of various emotional facial expression pairs. From a dynamic perspective, ERPs combined with sLORETA results showed significant differences among the groups. In compared to HC, 1

SUBMITTER: Hu B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5648876 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature