Neural and Affective Responses to Prolonged Eye Contact with Parents in Depressed and Non-Depressed Adolescents

Description: This dataset contains data on a task in which adolescents performed the eye contact task. The goal of this specific study was to examine the neural and psychological correlates of making eye contact with one’s parent and testing the uniqueness of these patterns when comparing them to eye contact with an unfamiliar peer and adult. In addition, we examined whether these responses differed between depressed (MDD/Dysthymia assessed with the K-SADS based on DSM-IV criteria) and non-depressed adolescents. While in the scanner, adolescent children (aged between 12-18 years) were presented with prolonged (16-38 s) videos of their own parent, an unfamiliar peer, an unfamiliar adult, and themselves (i.e., targets) facing the camera with a direct or an averted gaze (i.e., gaze direction). We measured BOLD-responses and tracked adolescents’ eye movements during the task and asked them to report on their mood and feelings of connectedness with the targets after each video. Adolescents were instructed to make eye contact with the person in the videos.

Communities: developmental

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