The Positive Effect of Negative Stimuli: Exposure to Negative Emotional Stimuli Improves Mood in Individuals with Major Depressive Disorder.

J Clin Med · 2025 · PMC12429692 · PMID 40943948

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While we anticipated this pattern in HCs based on prior studies [ 25 ] and observed a marginally larger effect in the MDD group, this difference did not reach statistical significance.

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