EMOTION‐PROCESSING BIASES AND RESTING EEG ACTIVITY IN DEPRESSED ADOLESCENTS

Although theorists have posited that adolescent depression is characterized by emotion‐processing biases (greater propensity to identify sad than happy facial expressions), findings have been mixed. Additionally, the neural correlates associated with putative emotion‐processing biases remain largely unknown. Our aim was to identify emotion‐processing biases in depressed adolescents and examine neural abnormalities related to these biases using high‐density resting EEG and source localization.

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