"She finds you abhorrent" - The impact of emotional context information on the cortical processing of neutral faces in depression.

ABSTRACT: Depression is associated with abnormalities in patterns of information processing, particularly in the context of processing of interpersonal information. The present study was designed to investigate the differences in depressive individuals in cortical processing of facial stimuli when neutral faces were presented in a context that involved information about emotional valence as well as self-reference. In 21 depressive patients and 20 healthy controls, event-related potentials (ERPs) were recorded during the presentation of neutral facial expressions, which were accompanied by affective context information that was either self- or other-related. Across conditions, depressive patients showed larger mean P100 amplitudes than healthy controls. Furthermore, mean late positive potential (LPP)

SUBMITTER: Iffland B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8121719 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature