A study on attentional bias and response inhibition of facial expressions in manic patients: evidence from eye movement.

CONCLUSION: These results demonstrate that compared to healthy controls, manic patients show a deficiency in processing speed. The patients showed no attentional vigilance to happy or sad expressions but did showed avoidance of the sad expression and focused more on the happy expression in later emotion processing. There were no impairments of response inhibition detected in manic patients. Key points Abnormal processing of emotional information and having aberrant inner-experiences of emotion is a feature of bipolar disorders. Processing speed is slow in manic patients versus healthy controls. Manic patients focused lesser on sad expression than healthy controls, which suggesting an avoidance of sad expressions. The findings show that psychotherapies like CBT may be applicable to manic patients.
PMID: 31035798 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: International Journal of Psychiatry in Clinical Practice - May 1, 2019 Category: Psychiatry Tags: Int J Psychiatry Clin Pract Source Type: research