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Long-range temporal correlations (LRTC) in brain oscillations have been found to be associated with depression severity in clinically depressed patients. Less is known, however, about the relationships between LRTC and proneness to engage in depression-related cognitive emotion regulation (ER) strategies which characterize both clinically and subclinically depressed (SBD) people. In this study we applied detrended fluctuation analysis to the amplitude envelope of broad band, theta band, and alpha band spontaneous EEG oscillations of a group of SBD individuals and a group of non-depressed individuals (both groups from a sample of healthy adults, N = 120), to whom brooding and thought suppression questionnaires were administered. Between-groups differences were not found for any band scaling exponents at any brain location, but linear correlations pointed out several associations between exponents at frontal, central, parietal, temporal, and occipital sites and maladaptive ER strategies. These results suggest that alterations in brain dynamics are related with the proneness that depressive individuals show to engage in brooding and thought suppression in order to cognitively regulate their emotions.
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This research was supported by Grant PSI2009-12711 from the Spanish Government. The authors would like to thank Dr. Miquel Noguera for his mathematical assistance.
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Bornas, X., Fiol-Veny, A., Balle, M. et al. Long range temporal correlations in EEG oscillations of subclinically depressed individuals: their association with brooding and suppression. Cogn Neurodyn 9, 53–62 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11571-014-9313-1
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