This study investigates potential moderators (sex, depression chronicity and severity) and executive function skills in relation to emotion processing skills. The overarching goal of this study is to gain a comprehensive understanding of emotion processing skills, with a primary focus on emotion regulation, among aging individuals to pave the way for the development of an intervention that seeks to optimize emotion regulation in older depressed people as primary therapy target. 

The aim is to develop a treatment that can be personalized based upon important predictors of emotion processing skills, specifically biological sex, depression severity and chronicity, and executive functioning skills. 

For more information, please visit our website: https://www.maca-lab.com/emotion-regulation-in-depression- and-the-aging-brain

Adults between 55 and 79 years old without dementia are eligible.

Participation involves some virtual and some in-person visits, as well as a follow-up visit in two years.

Participants take part in an interview to gather information about medical and psychiatric history, a physical exam, blood draw, cognitive testing, a functional MRI scan, and questionnaires. Some parts of this study can be performed virtually, and we are enrolling participants at Stony Brook University who are unable to attend in-person visits at this time due to the pandemic.

In total, you have the opportunity to earn up to $275 for participation in this study.

There is no cost for you to participate in our research study.