TY - JOUR
T1 - Patterns of Perceptual Asymmetry in Depression and Anxiety
T2 - Implications for Neuropsychological Models of Emotion and Psychopathology
AU - Heller, Wendy
AU - Etienne, Marci A.
AU - Miller, Gregory A.
PY - 1995/5
Y1 - 1995/5
N2 - More than 1,000 university undergraduates were simultaneously classified as either high or low depressed and high or low anxious and given a face-processing task that typically elicits a left hemispatial bias. Depression and anxiety were associated with opposing biases in perceptual asymmetry scores. In particular, high-depressed students had smaller left hemispatial biases than low-depressed students, whereas high-anxious students had larger left hemispatial biases than low-anxious students. The results suggest that depression and anxiety may be associated with different patterns of asymmetric hemispheric function. Because the rate of comorbidity of depression and anxiety in the population is high, these findings confirm the importance of separating anxiety and depression when examining the relationship among patterns of brain activity, emotion, and psychopathology.
AB - More than 1,000 university undergraduates were simultaneously classified as either high or low depressed and high or low anxious and given a face-processing task that typically elicits a left hemispatial bias. Depression and anxiety were associated with opposing biases in perceptual asymmetry scores. In particular, high-depressed students had smaller left hemispatial biases than low-depressed students, whereas high-anxious students had larger left hemispatial biases than low-anxious students. The results suggest that depression and anxiety may be associated with different patterns of asymmetric hemispheric function. Because the rate of comorbidity of depression and anxiety in the population is high, these findings confirm the importance of separating anxiety and depression when examining the relationship among patterns of brain activity, emotion, and psychopathology.
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U2 - 10.1037/0021-843X.104.2.327
DO - 10.1037/0021-843X.104.2.327
M3 - Article
C2 - 7790634
AN - SCOPUS:0029025195
SN - 0021-843X
VL - 104
SP - 327
EP - 333
JO - Journal of abnormal psychology
JF - Journal of abnormal psychology
IS - 2
ER -