Reduced facial expression and social context in major depression: discrepancies between facial muscle activity and self-reported emotion

Gehricke, Jean-Guido; Shapiro, David

doi:10.1016/s0165-1781(00)00168-2

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“…The content-related differences in the right temporoparietal cortex in patients were not reflected in subjective ratings. This is in line with the notion that physiologic reactivity and subjective report dissociate during emotion processing in depression, with normal emotion ratings in patients 3,4 (vs aberrant emotion ratings in other studies 71,72 ). Whereas arousal ratings in patients were not related to cortical activation patterns in the right temporoparietal cortex, controls showed a correlation pattern ( Figure 5) suggesting that higher temporoparietal activity for pleasant pictures vs unpleasant pictures was associated with reversed arousal ratings.…”

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“…2 Therefore, depression is regarded as an affective disorder implicating disturbed processing of emotional information (eg, reflected by abnormal startle modulation during emotional stimulation 3 and by reduced facial expression 4 ). In emotion research, the concept of motivated attention [5][6][7] emphasizes that affective stimuli activate action dispositions, which can be described in terms of hedonic valence (appetitive vs defensive) and emotional arousal (intensity).…”

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Hypofunction of Right Temporoparietal Cortex During Emotional Arousal in Depression

Moratti¹,

Rubio²,

Campo³

et al. 2008

Arch Gen Psychiatry

127

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Although emotional pictures engaged the dorsal visual stream to a greater extent than neutral pictures in both study groups, only controls showed strong arousal modulation in the right temporoparietal cortex. Because the right temporoparietal cortex is associated with the arousal dimension of emotion, subjects with depression may have difficulties in activating arousal-related brain areas, whereas basic stimulus processing related to activation of the dorsal visual stream is intact.

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confidence: 88%

Section: P Atients With Depression Arementioning

confidence: 99%

Hypofunction of Right Temporoparietal Cortex During Emotional Arousal in Depression

Moratti¹,

Rubio²,

Campo³

et al. 2008

Arch Gen Psychiatry

127

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“…Decreased movement is a common feature of psychomotor retardation in depression, and depression is associated with decreased reactivity to a wide range of positive and negative stimuli (Rottenberg 2005). Individuals with depression or dysphoria, in comparison with nondepressed individuals, are less likely to smile in response to pictures or movies of smiling faces and affectively positive social imagery (Gehricke & Shapiro 2000;Sloan et al 2002). When they do smile, they are more likely to damp their facial expression (Reed et al 2007).…”

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Effects of damping head movement and facial expression in dyadic conversation using real–time facial expression tracking and synthesized avatars

Boker

Cohn

Theobald

et al. 2009

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

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When people speak with one another, they tend to adapt their head movements and facial expressions in response to each others' head movements and facial expressions. We present an experiment in which confederates' head movements and facial expressions were motion tracked during videoconference conversations, an avatar face was reconstructed in real time, and naive participants spoke with the avatar face. No naive participant guessed that the computer generated face was not video. Confederates' facial expressions, vocal inflections and head movements were attenuated at 1 min intervals in a fully crossed experimental design. Attenuated head movements led to increased head nods and lateral head turns, and attenuated facial expressions led to increased head nodding in both naive participants and confederates. Together, these results are consistent with a hypothesis that the dynamics of head movements in dyadicconversation include a shared equilibrium. Although both conversational partners were blind to the manipulation, when apparent head movement of one conversant was attenuated, both partners responded by increasing the velocity of their head movements.

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“…Other evidence suggested that depressed persons exhibit reduced sensitivity to changing emotional contexts when compared with nondepressed controls (e.g., Gehricke & Shapiro, 2000). Because reduced sensitivity seems related to the inability to understand and use emotional information, we expected MDD patients to score lower than controls on these dimensions.…”

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confidence: 93%

Emotional intelligence and mental disorder

2009

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Emotional abilities were measured with a performance test of emotional intelligence (The Mayer-Salovey-Caruso Emotional Intelligence Test; Mayer, Salovey, & Caruso, 2002) in patients diagnosed with major depressive disorder, substance abuse disorder, or borderline personality disorder (BPD), and a nonclinical control group. Findings showed that all clinical groups differed from controls with respect to their overall emotional intelligence score, which dovetails with previous findings from self-report measures. Specifically, we found that the ability to understand emotional information and the ability to regulate emotions best distinguished the groups. Findings showed that patients with substance abuse disorder and BPD patients were most impaired.

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Reduced facial expression and social context in major depression: discrepancies between facial muscle activity and self-reported emotion

Cited by 110 publications

References 29 publications

Hypofunction of Right Temporoparietal Cortex During Emotional Arousal in Depression

Hypofunction of Right Temporoparietal Cortex During Emotional Arousal in Depression

Effects of damping head movement and facial expression in dyadic conversation using real–time facial expression tracking and synthesized avatars

Emotional intelligence and mental disorder

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