Impaired Emotional Processing in Major Depressive Disorder. Accuracy versus Processing Speed

Depression is one of the most frequent conditions within the general population, ranking among the most burdensome in terms of public health expenses, productivity loss and social costs. The condition has been linked with cognitive deficits that may even continue in remission phases, social cognitio...

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Published in:Journal of cognitive and behavioral psychotherapies 2024-09, Vol.24 (2), p.105-116
Main Authors: NEMEȘ, Bogdan, COMAN, Horia G., HERȚA, Dana C., TRIFU, Raluca N., COZMAN, Doina M. C.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Accuracy
Acknowledgment
Age
Clinical interviews
Cognition & reasoning
Cognitive ability
Cognitive functioning
Cognitive impairment
Depressive personality disorders
Emotion recognition
Emotions
Health care
Informed consent
Kurtosis
Mann-Whitney U test
Mental depression
Mental disorders
Neuropsychology
Productivity
Psychiatrists
Public health
Remission (Medicine)
Skewness
Social cognition
Social costs
Statistical analysis
Tests
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Summary:Depression is one of the most frequent conditions within the general population, ranking among the most burdensome in terms of public health expenses, productivity loss and social costs. The condition has been linked with cognitive deficits that may even continue in remission phases, social cognition being one potentially affected cognitive function. In our study, the Penn’s Emotional Acuity Test included in the CogtestTM battery was used to assess emotion recognition accuracy and processing speed. The Structured Clinical Interview for the Montgomery-Asberg Depression Rating Scale was used to assess the intensity of the symptomatology. A total of 48 depressed individual individuals (65% females), with a mean age of 49.8 ± 10.4 years, and 40 healthy controls (75% females), with a mean age of 35.2 ± 6.9 years were included. As compared to controls, depressive participants recorded significantly less correct answers (9.3 ± 3.8 vs. 11.2 ± 3.6, p = 0.019 – Student’s t test) and slower processing speeds (6795 ± 3366 vs. 4042 ± 1623, p 0.001 – Mann-Whitney U test) in emotion processing. Furthermore, symptom severity significantly influences only processing speed and not accuracy in emotion recognition tasks. Thus, we conclude that depressive individuals have a significant deficit in processing speed and accuracy when identifying the intensity of other peoples’ emotions.
ISSN:2360-0853
2360-0853
DOI:10.24193/jebp.2024.2.13