Understanding A Depressed Self-Image: Personal Reflection Tied To Heightened Brain Activity In People With Major Depressive Disorder

For frustrated brains, personal reflections are not picnic. This is the conclusion of a new study at the University of Liverpool, where researchers have discovered that people with severe depression experience sudden increases in brain activity when thinking about themselves. These findings can improve clinical knowledge and clarify new therapeutic strategies for one of the most common mental disorders in the country.

This research, published in the PLoS ONE journal, seeks to determine how depressed people think about themselves, and what people do not like depression think. Specifically, the authors of the study wondered if the actual physiological process can be said to be the basis of a negative, occasionally fragmented self-image that many patients have. The focus of this study is in the anterior medial frontal cortex, a region of the brain that is associated with personal reflection in previous studies.

To investigate, researchers recruited a large number of people diagnosed with depression in functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) experiments. This technique measures cerebral blood flow and enables scientists to monitor the local activity within the subject's brain. When scanning research participants, researchers asked them to use positive, negative, and neutral adjectives to explain themselves or Queen Elizabeth I. In this way, researchers can distinguish subjects' own assessments from their evaluation. Familiar but deleted characters

Peter Goldman, senior author at the University of Liverpool psychology said: "The depressed participants reduced positive vocabulary to explain themselves, chose a negative and neutral vocabulary. Although this is not surprising, it has been shown that blood oxygen concentration in the medial upper frontal cortex (region related to the processing of self-related information) is markedly reduced even in brain scan. "

Interestingly, the rapid increase in brain activity is only related to adjectives of depressed patients assigned to them. When they explained about the Queen, blood oxygen concentration was not significantly different from that of control group which is not depression. "When the depressed people think about themselves, the activities of the brain will be different, as they think about the queen, or when they make other types of judgment." In the middle.

Today, it is estimated that one in 10 American adults is reporting symptoms of depression. The mean onset age is 32 years old. According to Kingman's opinion, current findings will have a new perspective for self-image of depression to maintain its own neural processes, so the current finding may have a major impact on future treatment strategies I do not think so.

Source: May Sarsam, Laura M. Parkes, Neil Roberts, Graeme S. Reid, Peter Kinderman. Queen and I: Neurological relevance of self-related cognitive changes in major depressive episodes PLoS ONE, 2013

"15% of major depression patients die of suicide" (Large). Major depression or general depression is a condition related to the body and mind. Major depression and clinical depression, it may affect your feelings, thoughts and behavior. Depression can cause various emotional and physical problems. Depression in psychiatric disorders usually manifests as depression, low self-esteem, loss of joy or interest in normal activities.

The severity of depression includes mild transient sorrow and severe sustained depression. Clinical depression is a more serious form of depression, also known as major depression or major depression. It is different from the death of such a loved one, or lost depression like a medical condition such as thyroid disease. Many people are good at trying to conceal their symptoms. No matter how good others are, their intentions are frustrating and may be angry because they can not understand the illness. It is easy for people suffering to feel depressed. Because they feel depressed, they are lazy, self-destructive, they seem to get angry in the whole world. People try to conceal their illness by knowing that the person closest to them is actually angry and angry.