TY - JOUR A1 - Lyons, Naomi A1 - Strasser, Alexa A1 - Beitz, Bernard A1 - Teismann, Tobias A1 - Ostermann, Thomas A1 - Anderle, Laura A1 - Michalak, Johannes T1 - Bodily Maps of Emotion in Major Depressive Disorder T2 - Cognitive Therapy and Research N2 - Background: Emotions play a central role in mental disorder and especially in depression. They are sensed in the body, and it has recently been shown in healthy participants that these sensations can be differentiated between emotions. The aim of the current study was to assess bodily sensations for basic emotions induced by emotion eliciting pictures in depression. Methods: 30 healthy controls (HC), 30 individuals suffering from Major depressive disorder (MDD) without medication use (MDDnm) and 30 individuals with MDD with medication use (MDDm) were shown emotional and neutral pictures and were asked to paint areas in an empty body silhouette where they felt an increase or decrease in activation. Body sensation maps were then calculated and statistical pattern recognition applied. Results Results indicated statistically separable activation patterns for all three groups. MDDnm showed less overall activation than HCs, especially in sadness and fear, while MDDm showed stronger deactivation for all emotions than the other two groups. Conclusions: We could show that emotion experience was associated with bodily sensations that are weaker in depression than in healthy controls and that antidepressant medication was correlated with an increased feeling of bodily deactivation. Results give insights into the relevance for clinicians to acknowledge bodily sensations in the treatment of depression. KW - Bodily sensation maps KW - Depression KW - Arzneimittel KW - BSM KW - Medication KW - IAPS KW - Emotion induction KW - Replication Y1 - 2020 UR - https://whge.opus.hbz-nrw.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/3933 ER -