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From: Transdiagnostic alterations in neural emotion regulation circuits – neural substrates of cognitive reappraisal in patients with depression and post-traumatic stress disorder

Fig. 2

Mean rating scores of clinical scales in healthy individuals, patients with depression and PTSD. A Patients with depression used significantly less cognitive reappraisal than healthy individuals. B The three groups showed a similar tendency to use suppression strategies. C MDD and PTSD patients showed higher levels of anxiety compared to healthy controls. D MDD patients had the highest scores of depressive symptoms. Error bars denote standard errors of the mean. Significance: * = p < .01; ** = p < .001. Abbreviations: ERQ: Emotion regulation questionnaire (CR: cognitive reappraisal, SUP: suppression); HADS: Hospital anxiety and depression scale (A: anxiety, D: depression); HC: Healthy controls; MDD: Major depressive disorder; PTSD: Post-traumatic stress disorder

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BMC Psychiatry

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