title: Explicit and implicit emotional processing modifications in pharmacoresistant left temporal lobe epilepsy and anxiodepressive disorders.
abstract: We examined whether anxiodepressive patients with left temporal lobe epilepsy could be differentiated from those with depression but without epilepsy on tasks that investigate attentional bias toward and explicit judgment of emotional stimuli. Eight depressive patients, eight anxiodepressive patients with epilepsy, and eight controls participated in the present study. Anxiodepressive with epilepsy and depressive patients had comparable depression scores and the same cognitive profile. Two distinct emotional tasks were used: the decision lexical task and the number comparison task. Three emotional connotations were presented: neutral, positive, and negative. The pattern of results showed an attentional bias toward negative words and pictures in depressive patients and only toward negative words in anxiodepressive patients with epilepsy. Moreover, depressive patients explicitly judged negative stimuli with lower intensity and anxiodepressive patients judged neutral stimuli with higher intensity. The present study specifies the emotional functioning in depression with or without left temporal lobe epilepsy.
authors: Unité de Neuropsychologie, CM2R, Service de Neurologie, CHU Nord, Saint-Etienne, France. fanny.bourgeat@hotmail.fr
authors: Fanny
authors: F
authors: Bourgeat
authors: Céline
authors: C
authors: Borg
authors: Nathalie
authors: N
authors: Bedoin
authors: Philippe
authors: P
authors: Convers
authors: Stéphane
authors: S
authors: Billard
authors: Aurélie
authors: A
authors: Royer
authors: Anne
authors: A
authors: Grosselin
authors: Cécile
authors: C
authors: Bellot
authors: Catherine
authors: C
authors: Thomas-Antérion
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001008:Anxiety Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D001288:Attention; D003657:Decision Making; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000523:psychology*; D004644:Emotions; D004833:Epilepsy, Temporal Lobe / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007600:Judgment; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests