Factors associated with depression in people with inflammatory bowel disease: The relationship between active disease and biases in neurocognitive processing.
Ben WilkinsonLeanne TrickAnnie KnightVincent ValtonJames GoodhandNick A KennedyNeel HeerasingTariq AhmadAmy BlandRebecca ElliottJonathan P RoiserChris DickensPublished in: Neurogastroenterology and motility : the official journal of the European Gastrointestinal Motility Society (2019)
This is the first study to demonstrate links between disease activity and less positive biases in emotional recognition that could explain higher rates of depression among people with active IBD. Future prospective studies are required to confirm the effects of emotional processing biases in depression and allow stronger causal inferences to be drawn.