Face-Memory and Emotion: Associations with Major Depression in Children and Adolescents

Autor/inn/en	Pine, Daniel S.; Lissek, Shmuel; Klein, Rachel G.; Mannuzza, Salvatore; Moulton, John L., III; Guardino, Mary; Woldehawariat, Girma
Titel	Face-Memory and Emotion: Associations with Major Depression in Children and Adolescents
Quelle	In: Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 45 (2004) 7, S.1199-1208 (10 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0021-9630
DOI	10.1111/j.1469-7610.2004.00311.x
Schlagwörter	Anxiety Disorders; Neurology; Adolescents; Memory; Brain Hemisphere Functions; Depression (Psychology); Human Body; Emotional Response; Children; Correlation; Nonverbal Communication; Parent Child Relationship; Photography; Psychological Patterns; Recall (Psychology); Cognitive Processes; Task Analysis; Prediction; Age Differences; Gender Differences; Diagnostic Tests; Fear; Computer Assisted Testing + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Neurologie; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Gedächtnis; Menschlicher Körper; Emotionales Verhalten; Child; Kind; Kinder; Korrelation; Non-verbal communication; Nonverbale Kommunikation; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Fotografie; Abberufung; Cognitive process; Kognitiver Prozess; Aufgabenanalyse; Vorhersage; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Geschlechterkonflikt; Diagnostic test; Diagnostischer Test; Furcht
Abstract	Background: Studies in adults with major depressive disorder (MDD) document abnormalities in both memory and face-emotion processing. The current study used a novel face-memory task to test the hypothesis that adolescent MDD is associated with a deficit in memory for face-emotions. The study also examines the relationship between parental MDD and memory performance in offspring. Methods: Subjects were 152 offspring (ages 9-19) of adults with either MDD, anxiety disorders, both MDD and anxiety, or no disorder. Parents and offspring were assessed for mental disorders. Collection of face-memory data was blind to offspring and parent diagnosis. A computerized task was developed that required rating of facial photographs depicting "happy," "fearful," or "angry" emotions followed by a memory recall test. Recall accuracy was examined as a function of face-emotion type. Results: Age and gender independently predicted memory, with better recall in older and female subjects. Controlling for age and gender, offspring with a history of MDD (n = 19) demonstrated significant deficits in memory selectively for fearful faces, but not happy or angry faces. Parental MDD was not associated with face-memory accuracy. Discussion: This study found an association between MDD in childhood or adolescence and perturbed encoding of fearful faces. MDD in young individuals may predispose to subtle anomalies in a neural circuit encompassing the amygdala, a brain region implicated in the processing of fearful facial expressions. These findings suggest that brain imaging studies using similar face-emotion paradigms should test whether deficits in processing of fearful faces relate to amygdala dysfunction in children and adolescents with MDD. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10