| Abstract [eng] |
Links between cognitive processes and emotional functioning in depressed patients. Jelena Petruškevičiutė, Vilnius, Vilniaus University, 2021, p. 83. Depression (Major Depressive Disorder) is a clinical condition, causes severe alterations in cognitive and emotional domains and impact the abilities to learn, to plan, make decisions that affect dailylife functioning and predict the reoccurrence. The aim of the present study was to determine links between cognitive processes and emotional functioning in depressed patients. The research involved 45 participants, aged 18 to 53 years. 19 depressed medicated inparticipants were compared with 26 healthy controls on the task of PEBL-Lt; Verbal Fluency; Positive and Negative Effect Schedule-Expanded Form, PANAS-X; Beck Depression Inventory. Conclusions: depressed individuals are characterized by impaired response inhibition, changes in selective attention, difficulties in processing of complex information and retrieval words from lexical memory, difficulties in shifting of mental activity, lack of planning skills. Emotional functioning is characterized by a high negative affect and a low positive affect. Correlations were found between negative emotional functioning and response inhibition, lexical processing, semantic categorization rate, when correlations between positive, negative emotional functioning and response inhibition, lexical processing, semantic categorization, visual - active memory, planning, errors were found in the comparison group. The study would contribute the wider use of PEBL-Lt battery, further examination of emotional states and neurocognitive indicators. Keywords: depression, cognitive processes, executive function, positive, negative affect. |
