ERIC Number: EJ977924
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2012-Sep
Pages: 9
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Information Processing in Adolescents with Bipolar I Disorder
Whitney, Jane; Joormann, Jutta; Gotlib, Ian H.; Kelley, Ryan G.; Acquaye, Tenah; Howe, Meghan; Chang, Kiki D.; Singh, Manpreet K.
Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, v53 n9 p937-945 Sep 2012
Background: Cognitive models of bipolar I disorder (BD) may aid in identification of children who are especially vulnerable to chronic mood dysregulation. Information-processing biases related to memory and attention likely play a role in the development and persistence of BD among adolescents; however, these biases have not been extensively studied in youth with BD. Methods: We administered the self-referent encoding task an d the dot-probe task to adolescents with bipolar I disorder (BD, n = 35) and a demographically similar healthy comparison group (HC, n = 25) at baseline, and at a 1-year follow-up in a subset of this cohort (n = 22 per group). Results: At both baseline and 1-year follow-up, there were significant interactions of group (BD, HC) and valence of stimulus (positive, negative adjective) on endorsement and recall of self-referent adjectives. HC adolescents endorsed and recalled more positive self-referent adjectives at baseline and follow-up while adolescents with BD endorsed and recalled more negative self-referent adjectives at baseline but not follow-up. Over time, depression symptomatology was associated with impaired memory for positive self-referent adjectives. There were no group differences in attentional bias at either time points. Conclusions: Adolescents with BD exhibit bias away from endorsement and recall of positive adjectives, which remained stable over time and independent of mood state. (Contains 1 table and 1 figure.)
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Adolescents, Memory, Depression (Psychology), Information Processing, Symptoms (Individual Disorders), Behavior Problems, Task Analysis, Cognitive Processes, Models, Longitudinal Studies, Identification, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
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