Data for: EEG-responses to mood induction interact with seasonality

The EEG is suggested as a potential diagnostic and prognostic biomarker for seasonal affective disorder. Importantly, both EEG biomarkers and seasonality interact with age.

Inducing sad mood to assess cognitive vulnerability was suggested to improve the predictive value of summer assessments for winter depression. However, no EEG studies have been conducted on induced sad mood in relation to seasonality, and no studies so far have controlled for age. We recorded EEG and calculated bandpower in 114 participants during rest and during induced {sad} mood in summer.