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  • Psychiatry
  • Cognitive Psychology

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  • Balanced processing of internal and external worlds is vital for well-being.
  • Internalizing disorders often involve excessive control over internal states, leading to distress.
  • The effect of depression on external world processing remains unclear.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate visual signal processing in individuals with major depressive disorder (MDD).
  • To understand how depression influences the brain's response to external stimuli.

Main Methods:

  • Electroencephalogram (EEG) recordings were obtained from 38 MDD patients and 38 controls.
  • Participants completed a response-choice task with feedback and a passive viewing task.
  • Analysis focused on early visual information processing and event-related potentials like the vertex positive potential (VPP).

Main Results:

  • MDD patients exhibited significantly different early visual information processing compared to controls.
  • The vertex positive potential (VPP) evoked by feedback and visual stimuli was smaller in MDD patients.
  • This indicates a potential reduction in attentional resources allocated to external signal processing in depression.

Conclusions:

  • Major depressive disorder may impair the processing of external visual information.
  • Depression might reallocate attentional resources away from external stimuli.
  • These alterations in external processing could have implications for various cognitive functions in MDD.