The effect of positive and negative memory bias on anxiety and depression symptoms among adolescents

Ho, Samuel M. Y.; Cheng, Joseph; Dai, Darren W T; Tam, T.; Hui, Otilia

doi:10.1002/jclp.22597

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“…Another study of emotional encoding found that individuals with high anxiety preferentially encode negative contexts (Lee & Fernandes, 2017). Bias toward negative memory is correlated with anxiety in adolescents, while stronger emotional memory is also observed in adolescents with particular depressive disorders (Ho, Cheng, Dai, Tam, & Hui, 2018).…”

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The role of acetylcholine in negative encoding bias: Too much of a good thing?

Mineur

Picciotto

2019

Eur J of Neuroscience

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Optimal acetylcholine (ACh) signaling is important for sustained attention and facilitates learning and memory. At the same time, human and animal studies have demonstrated increased levels of ACh in the brain during depressive episodes and increased symptoms of anxiety, depression, and reactivity to stress when ACh breakdown is impaired. While it is possible that the neuromodulatory roles of ACh in cognitive and affective processes are distinct, one possibility is that homeostatic levels of ACh signaling are necessary for appropriate learning, but overly high levels of cholinergic signaling promote encoding of stressful events, leading to the negative encoding bias that is a core symptom of depression. In this review, we outline this hypothesis and suggest potential neural pathways and underlying mechanisms that may support a role for ACh signaling in negative encoding bias.

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The role of acetylcholine in negative encoding bias: Too much of a good thing?

Mineur

Picciotto

2019

Eur J of Neuroscience

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“…Using a modified Sternberg task, Yoon et al [24] observed depression-related deficits in inhibiting irrelevant emotional materials, both positive and negative; no such effect was found for anxiety, suggesting a depression-specific deficit in updating emotional contents in WM. However, a study of memory control in healthy adolescents observed a reverse pattern: anxiety was associated with difficulties forgetting negative words, whereas depression was not [32].…”

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Distinct Effects of Anxiety and Depression on Updating Emotional Information in Working Memory

Zhang

Boemo

Qiao

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IJERPH

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Anxiety and depression have been shown to negatively influence the processing of emotional information in working memory. However, most studies have examined anxiety-related or depression-related working memory deficits independently, without considering their high co-morbidity. We tested the effects of emotional valence on working memory performance among healthy young adults with varying levels of anxiety and depressive symptoms. Ninety young adults aged between 18–24 (51 female) completed an emotional 2-back task in which positive, negative, and neutral images were presented. Multi-level modeling was used to examine anxiety and depressive symptoms as predictors of response accuracy and latency across the three emotional valence conditions. The results showed that participants responded to negative images with the highest accuracy and to positive images with the lowest accuracy. Both negative and positive images elicited slower responses than neutral images. Importantly, we found that more severe anxiety symptoms predicted a smaller difference in response accuracy between negative and neutral stimuli, whereas more severe depressive symptoms predicted a larger updating reaction time difference between positive and neutral stimuli. These findings demonstrated the uniquely anxiety-related deficits in processing negative contents and the uniquely depression-related deficits in updating positive contents in working memory, thus highlighting the necessity of novel cognitive bias modification interventions targeting the anxiety-specific and depression-specific deficits in working memory.

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“…Numerous studies have shown that recall or recognition of depression-related materials in depressed individuals has a relatively obvious bias [1][2][3], which is called the negative moodcongruent effect [4][5][6]. These cognitive biases in depressed individuals may lead to the onset or deepening of depression [3,7].…”

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Effects of two different emotion-inducing methods on the emotional memory of non-clinically depressed individuals

Lin

Cai

et al. 2021

PLoS ONE

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In the study of emotional memory bias in depressed individuals, most previous studies have used emotional materials, but there were significant differences in the effects of different emotion-inducing methods on face memory. In the present study, two experiments were conducted to explore the effects of different emotion-inducing methods on memory between healthy participants and non-clinically depressed participants. The results from experiment 1 showed that when feedback was used as induction, the memory performance of the non-clinical depression group was significantly higher than that of the healthy group under the condition of negative feedback. Under positive and neutral feedback, there were no significant differences between the two groups. In experiment 2, when emotional materials were used as a mode of induction, no significantly difference in each emotional condition between the healthy and depressed groups was found. The results of the present study show that different methods of emotional induction have different effects on depressed participants. Compared with the emotion induced by the emotional material, the non-clinical depressed participants had a better memory effect induced by negative emotional events.

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The effect of positive and negative memory bias on anxiety and depression symptoms among adolescents

Abstract: Therapeutic strategies to increase positive memory bias may reduce anxiety symptoms only among those with high depression scores. Interventions to reduce negative memory bias may reduce anxiety symptoms irrespective of levels of depression.

Cited by 5 publications

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The role of acetylcholine in negative encoding bias: Too much of a good thing?

The role of acetylcholine in negative encoding bias: Too much of a good thing?

Distinct Effects of Anxiety and Depression on Updating Emotional Information in Working Memory

Effects of two different emotion-inducing methods on the emotional memory of non-clinically depressed individuals

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