Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
9380564 Journal of Affective Disorders 2005 12 Pages PDF
Abstract
Our results demonstrate that severely depressed individuals are significantly impaired in their ability to decode others' mental states. We suggest that strategies based on improving basic theory-of-mind reasoning could be incorporated into current therapeutic interventions for depressed individuals to ameliorate their understanding and interpretation of social information.
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