Please cite this article as: Bridoux A, Granato Ph, Reconnaissance visuelle desémotions faciales au cours d'un trouble dépressif majeur de type mélancolie délirante, Annales medio-psychologiques (2010), doi:10.1016/j.amp.2009.11.005 This is a PDF file of an unedited manuscript that has been accepted for publication. As a service to our customers we are providing this early version of the manuscript. The manuscript will undergo copyediting, typesetting, and review of the resulting proof before it is published in its final form. Please note that during the production process errors may be discovered which could affect the content, and all legal disclaimers that apply to the journal pertain. Durant la dépression, la joie est l'émotion la plus précocement atteinte mais la plus sensible à la thérapeutique. En outre, une confusion dans la reconnaissance de la colère et la peur apparaît. La gradation dans l'intensité des scores laisse supposer non pas un seul système émotionnel mais sept sous-systèmes émotionnels distincts, dont l'intensité de réponse est proportionnelle au trouble de l'humeur. Ce travail doit être étendu à une population de
Objectives -To evaluate ARFE following the Analysis method and the search for emotional integration (MARIE).This tool uses a continuation of fictive portraits created from two real portraits and in varying proportions (Professor Eckman's portraits with his agreement). This is an emotional series which can be either unipolar or bipolar (neutral/emotion, emotion/emotion).The subject has to choose between two possibilities for each portrait.The programme comprises nine series of 19 pictures of three different faces (a fairhaired woman, a dark-haired woman and a man).Statistical Analysis -An average between the 2 evaluations (X² test) can be compared according to the patient's answers.Comparison of results between patient's answers before and after the treatment and results before and after of a standard reference which is, by definition, 100%.Comparing the averages of time answering between the 2 evaluations (Student test) by logarithms.Results -The joy would be the emotion most sensitive to improve the mood and thus therapy. Conversely, recognition of fear and surprise would be the less sensitive. There would be a gradient answer of qualitative (type of emotion) and quantitative (intensity score) over treatment.The patient hardly recognizes the sadness at the opposite of the anger. There would be a hypo sensibility to sadness or hypersensitivity to anger in a major depression.However, the disorder varies according to the face presented.Page 3 of 20 A c c e p t e d M a n u s c r i p t 3 Discussion -We report the results of a unique case and we must remain critical.However, the results are in the line with most writers. It credits the interest of the measurement tool.The graduation in the intensity of the scores suggests does not suggest a single system but 7 emotional subsystems separated which intensity of the response is proportional to the mood disorder.This work should be exte...