Major depressive disorder skews the recognition of emotional prosody

Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 987-996

  Péron, Julie ^a,b   El Tamer, Sarah ^a,c   Grandjean, Didier ^b   Leray, Emmanuelle ^a,d   Travers, David ^a,c   Drapier, Dominique ^a,c   Vérin, Marc ^a   Millet, Bruno ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^c University Department of Psychiatry   (France)

^d PONTCHAILLOU UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

Emotional prosody; Major depressive disorder; Negative emotional bias

Indexed keywords

AMITRIPTYLINE; CITALOPRAM; CLOMIPRAMINE; DOXEPIN; ESCITALOPRAM; PAROXETINE; VENLAFAXINE;

ADULT; ANGER; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EMOTION; EMOTIONALITY; FEAR; FEMALE; HAPPINESS; HUMAN; LANGUAGE ABILITY; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PERCEPTION DISORDER; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; RECOGNITION; SADNESS;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANGER; ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS; CORPUS STRIATUM; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EMOTIONS; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NARRATION; NERVE NET; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STROOP TEST;

EID: 79956044034     PISSN: 02785846     EISSN: 18784216     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pnpbp.2011.01.019     Document Type: Article

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