Allison Dornbach-Bender, Camilo J. Ruggero, Kathleen M. Bain, Patrick Smith, Keke L. Schuler, Jesse M. Smotherman, Jennifer L. Callahan
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Abstract
Background
Previous research has identified altered processing of emotional information associated with the bipolar spectrum, but results have been inconsistent. The current study assessed whether hypomanic personality traits, a potential indicator of bipolar risk, are associated with biases in attention to emotional facial stimuli, even after controlling for mood state.
Methods
Participants (N = 135) completed measures assessing current mood symptoms, positive and negative affect, and hypomanic personality traits. They then completed an eye-tracking task measuring two indices of attention (i.e., mean initial orientation latency, mean total gaze duration) for happy, sad, angry, and neutral facial expressions.
Results
Even after controlling for mood state, hypomanic personality traits were associated with a bias for emotion faces as well as a trend towards faster orientation to happy facial expressions.
Limitations
Due to relatively low levels of mania in this sample, further work is needed to assess the extent to which these effects exist at clinical levels of depression or mania. Additionally, further work is needed to determine if such a bias represents a risk factor for the development of bipolar disorder.
Conclusions
Hypomanic personality traits appear to be associated with differences in early attention for emotional information.
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Neurology, Psychiatry & Brain Research publishes original papers and reviews in
biological psychiatry,
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neurology,
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neuropsychoimmunology,
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The journal has a focus on international and interdisciplinary basic research with clinical relevance. Translational research is particularly appreciated. Authors are allowed to submit their manuscript in their native language as supplemental data to the English version.
Neurology, Psychiatry & Brain Research is related to the oldest German speaking journal in this field, the Centralblatt fur Nervenheilkunde, Psychiatrie und gerichtliche Psychopathologie, founded in 1878. The tradition and idea of previous famous editors (Alois Alzheimer and Kurt Schneider among others) was continued in modernized form with Neurology, Psychiatry & Brain Research. Centralblatt was a journal of broad scope and relevance, now Neurology, Psychiatry & Brain Research represents a journal with translational and interdisciplinary perspective, focusing on clinically oriented research in psychiatry, neurology and neighboring fields of neurosciences and psychology/psychotherapy with a preference for biologically oriented research including basic research. Preference is given for papers from newly emerging fields, like clinical psychoimmunology/neuroimmunology, and ideas.
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