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Differences in neural and cognitive response to emotional faces in middle-aged dizygotic twins at familial risk of depression.
Psychological medicine - 1 Oct 2017
Miskowiak K W, Svendsen A M B, Harmer C J, Elliott R, Macoveanu J, Siebner H R, Kessing L V, Vinberg M
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BACKGROUND: Negative bias and aberrant neural processing of emotional faces are trait-marks of depression but findings in healthy high-risk groups are conflicting. METHODS: Healthy middle-aged dizygotic twins (N = 42) underwent functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI): 22 twins had a co-twin history of depression (high-risk) and 20 were without co-twin history of depression (low-risk). During fMRI,...
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