{"pk":49288,"title":"What Do Head Scans Reveal About Depression? Insights from 360° Psychomotor Assessment","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Psychomotor changes, while crucial indicators of depres-\nsion, remain underrepresented in clinical observations.\nWe examined the relationship between depression and\npsychomotor behavior by analyzing head-tracking data\nrelated to yaw movements made during exploration of\n360° emotional videos, alongside valence and arousal\nratings on 9-point Likert scale. Symptoms of depres-\nsion were recorded using the Patient Health Question-\nnaire (PHQ-9). While subjective ratings for valence and\narousal showed no differences across depression groups,\nthe head-tracking data revealed novel results. Individu-\nals with moderate to severe depression exhibited signif-\nicantly lower scanning speed and standard deviation in\nyaw movement compared to minimal to mild depression.\nAlthough preliminary, these results underscore the im-\nportance of psychomotor measures in diagnosis, risk as-\nsessment, and monitoring in psychiatric care, alongside\nsubjective evaluations.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"Computer Science; Psychology; Emotion; Emotion Disorder"}],"section":"Papers with Oral Presentation","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8n15r08z","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Priyanka","middle_name":"","last_name":"Srivastava","name_suffix":"","institution":"International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad","department":""},{"first_name":"Rohan","middle_name":"","last_name":"Lahane","name_suffix":"","institution":"IIIT Hyderabad","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2025-01-01T13:00:00-05:00","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/49288/galley/37249/download/"}]}