Topic
Depression research, explained
9 open-access depression studies, each with a flashcard deck and a quiz.
- Does saying 'I' more often link to depression and anxiety?
Using first-person singular pronouns while remembering sad events is linked to higher anxiety and depression in healthy individuals and those with eating disorders, but not in clinically depressed patients.
- Can an Online Program Help Prevent Postpartum Depression?
An online cognitive behavioral therapy program successfully reduced depressive symptoms by helping at-risk mothers improve their self-compassion and emotion regulation skills.
- How does brain activity during body awareness relate to alexithymia?
Healthy people with difficulty describing emotions show altered brain activity during body-awareness tasks, a pattern that is disrupted in individuals with major depression.
- How do people with unexplained symptoms perceive their bodies?
People with unexplained physical symptoms do not detect bodily signals more intensely, but they struggle more with worrying, ignoring, and trusting their physical sensations.
- Can computer programs find signs of depression in our speech?
Computerized analysis of brief speech samples revealed that people with depression use more negative words, more past tense, fewer prepositions, and fewer words expressing uncertainty compared to healthy individuals.
- Do people with dysphoria feel less daily pleasure?
In daily life, college students with dysphoria experience less pleasure both when anticipating upcoming events and during actual activities compared to healthy peers, though they do not differ on traditional trait-level surveys.
- How depression affects emotional voice and word perception
People with depression perceive positive words and positive vocal tones as less emotionally intense than healthy individuals do.
- Is cognitive control in depression linked to serotonin receptors?
People with major depressive disorder who have fewer 5-HT1A serotonin receptors show worse cognitive control and altered brain activity during impulse-control tasks.
- How does depression affect how we tell our feelings apart?
People with both active and recovered depression have a harder time distinguishing between different negative and positive feelings compared to healthy individuals.