Processing of facial expressions of emotion is central to human interaction, and has
important effects on behaviour and affective state. A range of methods and paradigms have …

The reviewed data show that major depressive disorder involves specific abnormalities in
the cognitive and neural processing of emotional information and that these abnormalities …

Background Recognition of others' emotions is an important aspect of interpersonal
communication. In major depression, a significant emotion recognition impairment has been …

Impaired facial expression recognition has been associated with features of major
depression, which could underlie some of the difficulties in social interactions in these …

In human interactions, frequently one individual becomes 'infected'with emotions displayed
by his or her partner. We tested the predictions by Hatfield et al.(1992)(Primitive emotional …

The present study was designed to examine the operation of depression-specific biases in
the identification or labeling of facial expression of emotions. Participants diagnosed with …

In this review, we consider affective cognition, responses to emotional stimuli occurring in
the context of cognitive evaluation. In particular, we discuss emotion categorization, biasing …

Sustained negative affect is a hallmark feature of depressive episodes. The ability to
regulate emotional responses to negative events may therefore play a critical role in our …

BACKGROUND: Bipolar disorder (BD) is characterised by abnormalities in mood and
emotional processing, but the neural correlates of these, their relationship to depressive …

Functional abnormalities in emotion-related brain systems have been implicated in
depression, and depressed patients may therefore attribute emotional valence to stimuli that …