Face tuning in female and male individuals with depression
Introduction The current COVID-19 pandemic brings social isolation to our daily lives that may elevate depression. The impact of major depressive disorder (MDD) on social cognitive functioning is far from understood, but essential for prevention and treatment of this neuropsychiatric condition....
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Introduction
The current COVID-19 pandemic brings social isolation to our daily lives that may elevate depression. The impact of major depressive disorder (MDD) on social cognitive functioning is far from understood, but essential for prevention and treatment of this neuropsychiatric condition.
Objectives
Our aim was to examine (i) whether face tuning is lower in depression; and (ii) how it is related to other cognitive abilities (such as perceptional organization). Furthermore, we intended to clarify gender impact on face tuning in MDD, as twice more females are affected.
Methods
Using a recently developed paradigm, the Face-n-Food task, we examined face tuning in 26 patients with MDD and 26 person-by-person matched controls. The advantage of non-face images is that its single elements do not promote face processing.
Results
Strikingly, MDD individuals showed intact face tuning. As sex ratio in our patient sample was about 2:1 (as in MDD population in general), we recruited additional male patients and found that MDD male patients were as good as female patients. Yet, while face tuning in MDD patients showed a significant correlation with perceptual organization abilities, in controls, it was linked with social cognition.
Conclusions
The outcome suggests that the origins of aberrant social functioning in MDD lie in maladaptive cognitive schemas rather than in a lack of sensitivity towards social signals per se. To elucidate neural circuits involved in face tuning in MDD, a magnetoencephalography (MEG) study with the Face-n-Food images is currently under progress.
Disclosure
No significant relationships.
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| spelling | doaj.art-d9f6018a46de410d83f1923c322f98702023-11-17T05:08:55ZengCambridge University PressEuropean Psychiatry0924-93381778-35852021-04-0164S691S69110.1192/j.eurpsy.2021.1830Face tuning in female and male individuals with depressionJ. Kubon0A. Sokolov1R. Popp2A. Fallgatter3M. Pavlova4Psychiatry And Psychotherapy, Eberhard Karls Universitaet Tuebingen, Tuebingen, GermanyPsychiatry And Psychotherapy, Eberhard Karls Universitaet Tuebingen, Tuebingen, GermanyPsychiatry And Psychotherapy, Eberhard Karls Universitaet Tuebingen, Tuebingen, GermanyPsychiatry And Psychotherapy, Eberhard Karls Universitaet Tuebingen, Tuebingen, GermanyPsychiatry And Psychotherapy, Eberhard Karls Universitaet Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany Introduction The current COVID-19 pandemic brings social isolation to our daily lives that may elevate depression. The impact of major depressive disorder (MDD) on social cognitive functioning is far from understood, but essential for prevention and treatment of this neuropsychiatric condition. Objectives Our aim was to examine (i) whether face tuning is lower in depression; and (ii) how it is related to other cognitive abilities (such as perceptional organization). Furthermore, we intended to clarify gender impact on face tuning in MDD, as twice more females are affected. Methods Using a recently developed paradigm, the Face-n-Food task, we examined face tuning in 26 patients with MDD and 26 person-by-person matched controls. The advantage of non-face images is that its single elements do not promote face processing. Results Strikingly, MDD individuals showed intact face tuning. As sex ratio in our patient sample was about 2:1 (as in MDD population in general), we recruited additional male patients and found that MDD male patients were as good as female patients. Yet, while face tuning in MDD patients showed a significant correlation with perceptual organization abilities, in controls, it was linked with social cognition. Conclusions The outcome suggests that the origins of aberrant social functioning in MDD lie in maladaptive cognitive schemas rather than in a lack of sensitivity towards social signals per se. To elucidate neural circuits involved in face tuning in MDD, a magnetoencephalography (MEG) study with the Face-n-Food images is currently under progress. Disclosure No significant relationships. https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S0924933821018307/type/journal_articleface pareidoliasocial cognitionDepressiongender impact |
| spellingShingle | J. Kubon A. Sokolov R. Popp A. Fallgatter M. Pavlova Face tuning in female and male individuals with depression European Psychiatry face pareidolia social cognition Depression gender impact |
| title | Face tuning in female and male individuals with depression |
| title_full | Face tuning in female and male individuals with depression |
| title_fullStr | Face tuning in female and male individuals with depression |
| title_full_unstemmed | Face tuning in female and male individuals with depression |
| title_short | Face tuning in female and male individuals with depression |
| title_sort | face tuning in female and male individuals with depression |
| topic | face pareidolia social cognition Depression gender impact |
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