Explicit and implicit emotional processing modifications in pharmacoresistant left temporal lobe epilepsy and anxiodepressive disorders.
Epilepsy Behav
; 21(4): 367-72, 2011 Aug.
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ABSTRACT
We examined whether anxiodepressive patients with left temporal lobe epilepsy could be differentiated from those with depression but without epilepsy on tasks that investigate attentional bias toward and explicit judgment of emotional stimuli. Eight depressive patients, eight anxiodepressive patients with epilepsy, and eight controls participated in the present study. Anxiodepressive with epilepsy and depressive patients had comparable depression scores and the same cognitive profile. Two distinct emotional tasks were used the decision lexical task and the number comparison task. Three emotional connotations were presented neutral, positive, and negative. The pattern of results showed an attentional bias toward negative words and pictures in depressive patients and only toward negative words in anxiodepressive patients with epilepsy. Moreover, depressive patients explicitly judged negative stimuli with lower intensity and anxiodepressive patients judged neutral stimuli with higher intensity. The present study specifies the emotional functioning in depression with or without left temporal lobe epilepsy.
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MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Transtornos de Ansiedade
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Atenção
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Transtorno Depressivo
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Emoções
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Epilepsia do Lobo Temporal
Tipo de estudo:
Prognostic_studies
Limite:
Adult
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Aged
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Female
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Humans
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Male
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Middle aged
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Epilepsy Behav
Assunto da revista:
CIENCIAS DO COMPORTAMENTO
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NEUROLOGIA
Ano de publicação:
2011
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de afiliação:
França