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B01 - Emotion perception, emotion regulation variability and flexibility modulate the effect of stressful life events on the course of illness in affective disorders 

Elisabeth Leehr, Andreas Jansen, Stefan Ehrlich

Maladaptive cognitive-emotional mechanisms drive symptom changes in affective disorders. The impact of emotion perception biases and varied emotion regulation strategies remains unclear. We propose that patients with affective disorders exhibit irregular emotional functioning, signalling an emotional risk profile. In the face of stressful life events, adaptive emotional functioning becomes crucial to prevent symptom worsening. Project B01 investigates how emotional functioning during stressful events affects the progression of affective disorders, studying behaviour and neural systems longitudinally.