Recognition of Facial Emotion Expressions in Patients with Depressive Disorders: A Prospective, Observational Study

ConclusionsPatients with depression are slower to identify positive emotions but have a similar time to recognition of negative emotions as patients without depression. The greater time required for recognition of happiness distinguished the patients with depression from control subjects, and was also the only parameter that showed an improvement with antidepressant therapy, suggesting a specific relationship of this parameter with the depressive state.
Source: Neurology and Therapy - Category: Neurology Source Type: research