THE COMPARISON OF AWARDED LEARNING EFFECTS OF EMOTIONAL EXPRESSIONS IN HEALTHY INDIVIDUALS WITH MAJOR DEPRESSIVE DISORDERS
Project no. 94 · Status: Kapanmış · 2017
Summary
INTRODUCTION: One of the core criteria of major depressive disorder (MDD) is anhedonia. The reward processing system should be examined to assess this finding, which is important in diagnosis, treatment and prognosis of this disease. The damage in the reward and the punishment system are counterbalanced as anhedonia. However, it is at the top of the social cognitive skills that individuals can carry out their social relations in a healthy way, in order to correctly understand emotional stimuli. Depressive individuals tend to interpret negative emotional stimuli. This situation negatively affects the social relations of the individuals and the negative of the social relations leads to the increase of the depressive symptoms. This leads to reduced cure rates. The evaluation of emotional stimuli and reward processing, knowing how neural reflections are; diagnosis, treatment and prognosis. AIM: In this study aimed to effect of emotional stimuli on learning the signal that will bring reward or punishment in the major depressive disorder; which one of the most important social health problems in our day. It is also aimed to evaluate the relationship between the reward and the punishment sensitivity and to determine how the neural projection will change in this process. HYPOTHESIS: The success of learning the cue to show the reward that is shown after negative emotional expressions is higher than after positive and neutral face expressions in depressive patients. Depressive individuals have lower reward awareness than healthy individuals. METHOD: Our study was completed with 33 people in the patient group and 32 people in the healthy control group.