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Visual Imagery and Spectrum Symptoms of Depression and Hypomania Differentially Modulate Brain Responses during Emotional Face Anticipation and Encoding

2025-11-06 psychiatry and clinical psychology Title + abstract only
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BackgroundDepressive (DD) and bipolar (BD) disorders are characterized by biases in anticipating and encoding emotional information. Depressive traits are linked to negative affective biases, while hypomanic features are associated with heightened responsiveness to positive stimuli. The vividness of visual imagery may further modulate these biases. This study examined how lifetime dimensional symptoms of depression and hypomania across diagnoses interact with imagery vividness to modulate brain ...

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