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CES‐D depression scores are correlated with frontal EEG alpha asymmetry
Author(s) -
Diego Miguel A.,
Field Tiffany,
HernandezReif Maria
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
depression and anxiety
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.634
H-Index - 129
eISSN - 1520-6394
pISSN - 1091-4269
DOI - 10.1002/1520-6394(2001)13:1<32::aid-da5>3.0.co;2-g
Subject(s) - electroencephalography , depression (economics) , psychology , anxiety , frontal lobe , audiology , alpha (finance) , analysis of variance , clinical psychology , psychiatry , medicine , psychometrics , construct validity , economics , macroeconomics
In order to evaluate the relationship between frontal EEG asymmetry and depressive symptomology, the Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression scale [CES‐D; Radloff, 1977] was given to 163 women, and their EEG was recorded from the mid frontal (F3 and F4) and parietal (P3 and P4) regions during a 3 min baseline recording. As expected from previous research on depression, CES‐D scores were negatively correlated with frontal EEG alpha asymmetry scores and positively correlated with left frontal EEG alpha power. Analyses of variance further revealed that mothers scoring above the cut‐off for depression (CES‐D≥16) had significantly lower frontal EEG asymmetry scores than mothers with 0–2 and 3–12 CES‐D scores but not lower scores than mothers with 13–15 CES‐D scores. Depression and Anxiety 13:32–37, 2001. © 2001 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.