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Publication Name World Journal of Psychiatry
Manuscript ID 114153
Country China
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ISSN 2220-3206 (online)
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Category Psychiatry
Manuscript Type Minireviews
Article Title Emotion-cognition dysregulation in major depression: Multidimensional biases, neural circuit imbalance, and translational opportunities
Manuscript Source Unsolicited Manuscript
All Author List Yi Gu, Yi-Xu Wang, Wen-Juan Xia and Jun Wang
ORCID
Author(s) ORCID Number
Yi Gu http://orcid.org/0009-0007-5626-8849
Yi-Xu Wang http://orcid.org/0009-0002-7194-9734
Wen-Juan Xia http://orcid.org/0009-0003-2785-7733
Jun Wang http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8189-9131
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Corresponding Author Jun Wang, Associate Professor, PhD, Department of Psychiatry, Wuxi Mental Health Center (Affiliated Mental Health Center of Jiangnan University), No. 156 Binhu District, Wuxi 214151, Jiangsu Province, China. woodfish2@jiangnan.edu.cn
Key Words Major depressive disorder; Emotion-cognition dysregulation; Amygdala-prefrontal circuitry; Attentional bias; Amotion regulation; Biomarkers
Core Tip This review reframes major depression as an emotion–cognition dysregulation syndrome characterized by a limbic-prefrontal imbalance and large-scale network disruption. By integrating behavioral signatures (negative attention/memory bias, impaired reappraisal) with neural markers (amygdala/insula hyperreactivity, weakened prefrontal control, default mode network-frontoparietal control network/salience network dyscoupling), it outlines composite biomarkers for diagnosis, stratified risk prediction, and mechanism-guided therapies (e.g., imaging-informed neuromodulation). The field now needs standardized tasks and longitudinal multimodal designs to operationalize precision psychiatry.
Publish Date 2026-02-28 08:32
Citation

Gu Y, Wang YX, Xia WJ, Wang J. Emotion-cognition dysregulation in major depression: Multidimensional biases, neural circuit imbalance, and translational opportunities. World J Psychiatry 2026; 16(3): 114153

URL https://www.wjgnet.com/2220-3206/full/v16/i3/114153.htm
DOI https://dx.doi.org/10.5498/wjp.v16.i3.114153
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