Research Article

Abnormal Default-Mode Network Homogeneity in Melancholic and Nonmelancholic Major Depressive Disorder at Rest

Table 1

Demographic and clinical characteristics of the participants.

Melancholic
()
Nonmelancholic ()Healthy controls (), , or value value (two-tailed)

Age (years)2.2910.107a
Gender(male/female)10/2110/1815/171.550.461b
Handedness (right/left)31/028/032/0
Education(years)6.1430.003a
Illness duration (months)-0.680.500c
HRSD-17 scores527.891<0.001a
BAI scores50.895<0.001a
SHAPS-C scores64.191<0.001a
TEPS total scores-3.3150.002c
TEPS abstract anticipatory-3.3730.001c
TEPS contextual anticipatory-3.5400.001c
TEPS abstract consummatory-1.5920.117c
TEPS contextual consummatory-1.8240.074c

HRSD-17: 17-item Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression; BAI: Beck anxiety inventory; SHAPS-C: the Chinese version of Snaith-Hamilton Pleasure Scale; TEPS: the Chinese version of the Temporal Experience of Pleasure Scale. aThe value was obtained by analyses of variance. bThe value was obtained by a chi-square test. cThe value was obtained by two-sample -tests.