Deficits in emotion processing, a known clinical feature of major depressive disorder (MDD),
have been widely investigated using emotional face paradigms and neuroimaging.
However, most studies have not accounted for the high inter-subject variability of symptom
severity. Similarly, only sparse research has focused on MDD in adolescence, early in the
course of the illness. Here we sought to investigate neural responses to emotional faces
using both categorical and dimensional analyses with a focus on anhedonia, a core …