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ORLANDO, FLA. -- Depressed patients who perceive a neutral facial expression as a look of anger, fear, disgust, or sadness are more likely to have somatoform symptoms and less likely to adhere to antidepressant therapy than are patients who perceive the same expression to be one of happiness, surprise, or no emotion, a study has shown.
The results suggest that patient response to a visual stimulus could be used as a proxy screen in primary care to identify patients who are at high or...
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