Major depression is not associated with blunting of aversive responses; evidence for enhanced anxious anticipation.

According to the emotion-context insensitivity (ECI) hypothesis, major depressive disorder (MDD) is associated with a diminished ability to react emotionally to positive stimuli and with blunting of defensive responses to threat. That defensive responses are blunted in MDD seems inconsistent with th...

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Main Authors: Christian Grillon, Jose A Franco-Chaves, Camilo F Mateus, Dawn F Ionescu, Carlos A Zarate
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3738594?pdf=render