Psychological processes in bipolar affective disorder: negative cognitive style and reward processing

Psychological processes in bipolar affective disorder: negative cognitive style and reward processing.

BACKGROUND Psychological processes in bipolar disorder are of both clinical and theoretical importance. AIMS To examine depressogenic psychological processes and reward responsivity in relation to different mood episodes (mania, depression, remission) and bipolar symptomatology. METHOD One hundred and seven individuals with bipolar disorder (34 in a manic/hypomanic or mixed affective state;...

Reward processing dysfunction in major depression, bipolar disorder and schizophrenia.

PURPOSE OF REVIEW This article reviews the recent literature on reward processing dysfunction in major depression (MDD), bipolar disorder and schizophrenia, with a focus on approach motivation, reward learning and reward-based decision-making. RECENT FINDINGS Emerging evidence indicates the presence of reward processing abnormalities across all three disorders, supporting a transdiagnostic ap...

Reward processing in adolescents with bipolar I disorder.

OBJECTIVE Bipolar disorder (BD) is a debilitating psychiatric condition that commonly begins in adolescence, a developmental period that has been associated with increased reward seeking. Because youth with BD are especially vulnerable to negative risk-taking behaviors, understanding the neural mechanisms by which dysregulated affect interacts with the neurobehavioral processing of reward is cl...

Reward processing in healthy offspring of parents with bipolar disorder.

IMPORTANCE Bipolar disorder (BD) is highly familial and characterized by deficits in reward processing. It is not known, however, whether these deficits precede illness onset or are a consequence of the disorder. OBJECTIVE To determine whether anomalous neural processing of reward characterizes children at familial risk for BD in the absence of a personal history of a psychopathologic disorde...

Bipolar affective disorder