Perception of affective prosody in major depression: A link to executive functions?

Perception of affective prosody in major depression: a link to executive functions?

Major depression is associated with impairments of executive functions and affect perception deficits, both being linked to dysfunction of fronto-subcortical networks. So far, little is known about the relationship between cognitive and affective deficits in major depression. In the present investigation, affect perception and executive functions were assessed in 29 patients with a diagnosis of...

A study of recurrent unipolar major depression and executive functions

Affective Prosody and Depression After Stroke

Neuropsychiatric disorders occur frequently after stroke and have a detrimental impact on functional outcomes and quality of life. Poststroke depression (PSD) is considered the most frequent clinical expression of these disorders and is often diagnosed at least 3 months after stroke. The identification of patients at risk for developing this disorder remains an important issue for clinicians be...

Executive Functions in Depression: a Clinical Report

Fifty patients of depression and thirty normal subjects were assessed using clinical rating scales and also for the executive functions by Wisconsin Card Sorting Test (WCST). The depressed subjects demonstrated poor performance on WCST suggesting cognitive inflexibility and prefrontal dysfunction. More severe illness was associated with greater impairment in the executive functioning. This patt...

Atypical perception of affective prosody in Autism Spectrum Disorder

Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is characterized by impairments in language and social-emotional cognition. Yet, findings of emotion recognition from affective prosody in individuals with ASD are inconsistent. This study investigated emotion recognition and neural processing of affective prosody in high-functioning adults with ASD relative to neurotypical (NT) adults. Individuals with ASD showed...