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  • Psychology

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  • Facial emotion recognition (FER) is crucial for social interaction.
  • Depression subtypes, unipolar depression (UD) and bipolar depression (BD), may exhibit distinct FER deficits.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate and compare FER abilities in patients with UD, BD, and healthy controls.
  • To identify potential biomarkers for differentiating between UD and BD.

Main Methods:

  • Recruited 30 UD patients, 30 BD patients, and controls.
  • Assessed recognition of 15 facial expression categories (e.g., happiness, sadness).
  • Utilized ANOVA and t-tests for statistical analysis of FER accuracy and time.

Main Results:

  • Significant differences in FER were observed between groups, particularly for happy-sad, happy-angry, happy-surprised, and disgust-surprised expressions.
  • BD patients showed lower accuracy for happy-sad and happy-angry expressions compared to controls.
  • UD patients demonstrated higher accuracy than BD patients for happy-sad and happy-angry expressions.
  • Both UD and BD patients exhibited longer facial expression recognition times than controls.
  • ROC analysis indicated high accuracy (AUC=0.933) in distinguishing UD from BD using happy-sad recognition.

Conclusions:

  • UD patients exhibit deficits in recognizing negative emotions and longer recognition times.
  • BD patients show impaired recognition of positive emotions and increased recognition times.
  • FER performance, particularly rapid recognition, may serve as a potential endophenotype for early UD and BD identification.