The effect of positive mood induction on emotional processing in euthymic individuals with bipolar disorder and controls

Many studies have used negative mood induction techniques to investigate the effect of emotional state on cognitive performance but positive mood induction paradigms have been used less frequently. The objective of this study was to investigate the effect of positive mood induction on emotional proc...

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Published in:Psychological medicine 2009-05, Vol.39 (5), p.785-791
Main Authors: Roiser, J., Farmer, A., Lam, D., Burke, A., O'Neill, N., Keating, S., Smith, G. Powell, Sahakian, B., McGuffin, P.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adult
Adult and adolescent clinical studies
Affect
Affective Go/No-go
Biological and medical sciences
Bipolar affective disorder
Bipolar disorder
Bipolar Disorder - psychology
Bipolar disorders
Choice Behavior
Cognition & reasoning
Cognition Disorders - diagnosis
Cognition Disorders - psychology
Control
Decision Making
Emotion recognition
emotional processing
Emotions
Female
Gambling - psychology
Humans
Induction
Male
mania
Medical sciences
Middle Aged
Mood disorders
mood induction
Moods
Pattern Recognition, Visual
Positive affect
Psychiatry
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychopathology. Psychiatry
Reaction Time
Risk-Taking
Semantics
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Summary:Many studies have used negative mood induction techniques to investigate the effect of emotional state on cognitive performance but positive mood induction paradigms have been used less frequently. The objective of this study was to investigate the effect of positive mood induction on emotional processing in euthymic individuals with bipolar disorder (BD) and controls. Previously, we reported that positive mood induction using a novel technique based on feedback produced a longer-lasting effect in euthymic individuals with BD than controls (Farmer et al. 2006). Here we report the effect of mood induction on two tests of emotional processing, the Affective Go/No-go test (AGNG) and the Cambridge Gamble task (CGT), on which BD patients in the manic phase differ in their performance from controls. Following positive mood induction, bipolar cases exhibited a positive emotional bias on the AGNG and performed more slowly than controls on the CGT, particularly when making more difficult decisions. These data confirm that positive mood induction is more effective in individuals with BD than controls. They also suggest that alterations in decision making and attentional biases occur even with transient and subtle changes in mood in bipolar disorder.
ISSN:0033-2917
1469-8978
DOI:10.1017/S0033291708004200