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Master thesis . 2016
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Teoria da mente e cognição social na depressão major

Authors: Coelho, Cândida Margarida Martins;

Teoria da mente e cognição social na depressão major

Abstract

A Depressão Major é causa de disfuncionalidade grave, nomeadamente a nível do relacionamento interpessoal. A Teoria da Mente é a capacidade de atribuir estados mentais a si próprio e aos outros, sendo crucial para a compreensão do comportamento humano e do funcionamento social. O principal objetivo deste estudo consistiu na avaliação da capacidade de Teoria da Mente e cognição social em doentes com Depressão Major. Para tal, foi elaborada uma avaliação específica que foi aplicada a 17 doentes do sexo feminino, com o diagnóstico de Depressão Major, internadas no Serviço de Psiquiatria do CHUC e, as quais, cumpriam os critérios de inclusão e exclusão inicialmente estabelecidos. Da avaliação fizeram parte informação sociodemográfica relevante; avaliação clínica e neuropsiquiátrica com apreciação do episódio depressivo atual e da função cognitiva e avaliação da capacidade de Teoria da Mente com o “Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test”. Os resultados obtidos agruparam-se em três principais linhas de força. Em primeiro lugar, a análise dos dados sugeriu um défice na capacidade de Teoria da Mente nos doentes com Depressão Major. Por outro lado, observámos uma correlação significativa entre os testes usados para avaliação da psicopatologia e testes de apreciação da função cognitiva. Finalmente, os dados suportaram uma correlação forte entre os resultados os testes de avaliação da função cognitiva e o “Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test”, sendo que a obtenção de piores resultados nos testes de avaliação da Teoria da Mente se associou a piores desempenhos cognitivos. Concluiu-se, neste estudo, a importância da cognição social na compreensão da Depressão Major e que, as dificuldades exibidas neste domínio podem dever-se, pelo menos em parte, a défices de interpretação e compreensão de emoções e estados mentais

Major Depressive Disorder is a cause of significant functional impairment, including interpersonal and social functioning. Theory of Mind is the ability to impute mental states to oneself and to others and is essential to the understanding of one’s own and other people’s behaviour, and so, essential to social functioning. The main goal of this study was to examine whether depressed patients are impaired in their Theory of Mind and social cognition skills. To this goal, a specific assessment was applied to 17 women diagnosed with Major Depressive Disorder, from the female psychiatric ward of CHUC, which met the required inclusion and exclusion criteria. The assessment included relevant socio-demographic information, clinical and neuropsychological assessment with current depressive episode evaluation and cognitive assessment and Theory of Mind appreciation with Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test. We obtained three main results. First, the data of our study suggested that depressed patients have impaired Theory of Mind skills. Second, we found a significant correlation between test used to assess psychopathology and cognitive functions. Finally, data supported a strong correlation between the results in cognitive tests and Reading the Mind with the Eyes Test, in which poor results in Theory of Mind tasks were associated with worse cognitive performance. We concluded, in this study, the relevance of social cognition as an important part in the understanding of Major Depressive Disorder as well as, the difficulties in this setting observed in depressed patients may, at least in part, be due to an impaired ability to interpret emotional stimuli and mental states

Trabalho final de mestrado integrado em Medicina, área cientifica de Psiquiatria, apresentado á Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Coimbra

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Domínio/Área Científica::Ciências Médicas, Teoria da mente, Depressão, Cognição

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