The neurobiology of self face recognition among depressed adolescents.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Depression is linked to alterations in both emotion and self-processing. The current study used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to assess neural activation in healthy and depressed youth to a novel task that combined emotion processing with self-face recognition.

Methods

An fMRI study involving 81 adolescents (50.6% females; M_age=14.61, SD=1.65) comprised of depressed (DEP, n=43), and healthy controls (HC, n=38). Participants completed a clinical interview and self-report measures during an initial assessment. In the scanner, adolescents completed a face recognition task, viewing emotional (happy, sad, neutral) images of their own face (self) or the face of another youth (other).

Results

DEP youth showed higher activity in the cuneus

SUBMITTER: Quevedo K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5898821 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature