Depression affects visual perception

A study from the “ Journal of Psychiatry and Neuroscience ” researches from the University of Helsinki determined the effects of depression and effect your visual perception. The study states that the processing of photographic information is altered in people who experience depression. Patients with depression were compared to a “control group” by developing two tests "What came as a surprise was that depressed patients perceived the contrast of the images shown differently from non-depressed individuals," says Academy of Finland Research Fellow Viljami Salmela. The patients compared…