Researchers have discovered how to diagnose a severe form of depression known as ‘melancholia’ by analysing facial expressions and brain activity.
Researchers have discovered how to diagnose a severe form of depression known as ‘melancholia’ by analysing facial expressions and brain activity.
www.nature.com Markers of positive affect and brain state synchrony discriminate melancholic from non-melancholic depression using naturalistic stimuli | Molecular Psychiatry
Melancholia has been proposed as a qualitatively distinct depressive subtype associated with a characteristic symptom profile (psychomotor retardation, profound anhedonia) and a better response to biological therapies. Existing work has suggested that individuals with melancholia are blunted in thei...