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Affective Disorders; Bipolar Disorder; Emotion processing; Emotional intelligence; Emotions and cognition; Manic-depressive illness; Neuroanatomy; Neurocognitive; Neuropsychology
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Neuropsychological And Emotion Processing Abnormalities In Bipolar Disorder I And Ii, Carol Randall
Neuropsychological And Emotion Processing Abnormalities In Bipolar Disorder I And Ii, Carol Randall
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Bipolar disorder illness is marked by emotional lability and mood disturbance, as well as various neuropsychological deficits, and the neuroanatomical correlates of many of these deficits are beginning to be identified. Numerous studies have implicated specific cortical and sub-cortical abnormalities in areas associated with executive function, memory, motor function, and the processing of emotion. Although a large body of research has been devoted to the investigation of cognitive and emotion-processing deficits in bipolar disorder, relatively few studies have been devoted to the investigation of how these deficits differ among bipolar disorder subtypes. This is surprising in light of known symptomatological …