AUTHOR=Gray Vanessa , Moot William , Frampton Christopher M. A. , Douglas Katie M. , Gallagher Peter , Jordan Jennifer , Carter Janet D. , Inder Maree , Crowe Marie , McIntosh Virginia V. W. , Porter Richard J. 

TITLE=The effect of age on emotion processing in individuals with mood disorders and in healthy individuals

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Psychology

VOLUME=Volume 15 - 2024

YEAR=2024

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1204204

DOI=10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1204204

ISSN=1664-1078

ABSTRACT=This is a provisional file, not the final typeset article or bipolar) were compared with 61 healthy control participants, and in the other, 100 people with bipolar disorder (in various mood states) were tested on the same facial expression recognition task. Repeated measures analysis of variance was used to examine the effects of age and mood disorder diagnosis alongside interactions between individual emotion, age, and mood disorder diagnosis. A positivity effect was associated with increasing age which was evident irrespective of the presence of mood disorder or current mood episode.Results suggest a positivity effect occurring at a relatively early age but with no evidence of a bias towards negative emotions in mood disorder or specifically, in depressed episodes. The positivity effect in emotional processing in aging appears to occur even within people with mood disorders. Further research is needed to understand how this fits with negative biases seen in previous studies in mood disorders.