ICPS

2021 APS Virtual Convention · 2021

Anxiety Vs. Depression: Can Alpha-Band EEG Asymmetry in Response to Mood Induction Differentiate between the Two?

Virtual · May 2021

Posters · Developmental Psychology

  • Caitlin Tytler
    Cleveland State University
  • Ilya Yaroslavsky
    Cleveland State University

Abstract

This study tested whether incongruent reactivity in alpha-band EEG asymmetry to positive and negative mood elicitors differentiates between depression and anxiety. Task-incongruent change in right frontotemporal asymmetry predicted depression and anxiety, but did not differentiate them.

Psychopathology