Behavioural and neurocognitive responses to sad facial affect are attenuated in patients with mania.

BACKGROUND: The processing of facial emotion involves a distributed network of limbic and paralimbic brain structures. Many of these regions are also implicated in the pathophysiology of mood disorders. Behavioural data indicate that depressed subjects show a state-related positive recognition bias...

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Main Authors: Lennox, B, Jacob, R, Calder, A, Lupson, V, Bullmore, E
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: 2004