The paradox of enjoying listening to music that evokes sadness is yet to be fully understood. Unlike prior studies that have explored potential explanations related to lyrics, memories, and mood regulation, we investigated the types of emotions induced by unfamiliar, instrumental sad music, and whether these responses are consistently associated with certain individual difference variables. One...

Having a mother with major depressive disorder (MDD) is one of the strongest predictors of depression in late adolescence and early adulthood. Despite this fact, we know little about the neural mechanisms involved in the intergenerational transmission of risk for depression. Twenty-eight never-disordered daughters of recurrent depressed mothers (high-risk) and 36 never-disordered daughters of n...

BACKGROUND Quantifying anxiety and depressive experiences permits individuals to calibrate where they are and monitor intervention-associated changes. eMindLog is a novel self-report measure for anxiety and depression that is grounded in psychology with an organizing structure based on neuroscience. OBJECTIVE Our aim was to explore the psychometric properties of eMindLog in a nonclinical samp...

Previous studies have shown changes in empathy in patients with depression, including an elevated level of trait personal distress. This study examined if low mood causes changes in self-reported empathic distress when seeing others in pain. To test this, we conducted an initial (n = 26) and close replication study (n = 46) in which sad mood was induced in healthy participants (overall mean age...

Depression is characterized by a feeling of sadness and lack pleasure, with impaired daily functioning poor quality life. The neurobiology the pathogenesis depression are not fully understood yet. Several hypotheses have been discussed including, monoamine theory, neurotransmission, oxidation, inflammation, glutamatergic transmission, neurotrophic factors, others. Reviewing three decades random...

COVID-19 virus caused drastic changes in people's lives, especially terms of employment. Employees were greatly impacted by this pandemic, as there terminated from their jobs. This study investigated how depression affects workers and they manage it throughout the pandemic.
 A qualitative design was employed to perform study. structured type interview conducted on five samples using an onl...