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Effects of clay art therapy on adults outpatients with major depressive disorder: A randomized controlled trial.. Depression has become a critical global health problem, affecting millions of people. Short-term clay art therapy is an alternative treatment that promotes the enhancement of various aspects of mental health for depressed individuals. this study aimed at investigating the combined nonverbalverbal form of clay art therapy as complementary treatment for depression outpatients in the community setting. the somatosensory processes of involving hands in clay work take a bottom-up mode of information processing society for neuroscience and are rich in haptic perception elbrecht & antcliff. the experience re-shaping and expression of emotion in group sharing as well as in art making functions similarly to the process of emotional learning in verbal form of psychotherapy bastos et al.however art making also involves autonomic nervous activities hormonal responses and complex connecting work between the amygdala and the prefrontal cortex pfc fuster to process working memory positive and negative emotional expressions and to execute decision making and the various work tasks of cat carr ; davidson putnam & larson ; society for neuroscience.