Social Hypersensitivity in Bipolar Disorder: An ERP Study
Introduction Bipolar Disorder (BD) is a disorder in which cognitive function is relatively preserved but social functioning is markedly impaired. Interestingly, studies on BD show that the patients have a strong desire for social rewards. Hypersensitivity to social rewards in BD has not yet been su...
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Introduction
Bipolar Disorder (BD) is a disorder in which cognitive function is relatively preserved but social functioning is markedly impaired. Interestingly, studies on BD show that the patients have a strong desire for social rewards. Hypersensitivity to social rewards in BD has not yet been sufficiently examined through experimental methods, although recent studies have pointed out that their reward hypersensitivity is the cause of symptoms and dysfunction.
Objectives
The purpose of this study was to investigate whether patients with BD are hypersensitive to social rewards using the social value capture task.
Methods
Groups of 25 BD and healthy control (HC) each completed the social value attention capture task. This task consists of a practice phase in which associative learning of social rewards with specific stimuli occurs, and a test phase in which the stimuli associated with rewards appear as distractors during the participants performing a selective attention task. We also recorded event-related potential (ERP) in the practice phase in order to investigate BDs’ cortical activity for social reward.
Results
showed significantly decreased accuracy rate and increased reaction time in the high social reward-associated distractor trials of the test phase in the BD compared to the HC. As a result of analysis in ERP components, P3 amplitude for social reward was significantly greater in the BD than the HC.
Conclusions
BD patients exhibit behavioral and physiological hypersensitivity to social rewards that might contribute to social dysfunction.
Disclosure
No significant relationships.
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| spelling | doaj.art-4252882126d5459baa330025e5fee6182023-11-17T05:08:28ZengCambridge University PressEuropean Psychiatry0924-93381778-35852022-06-0165S159S15910.1192/j.eurpsy.2022.425Social Hypersensitivity in Bipolar Disorder: An ERP StudyY. Kwan0J. Lee1S. Hwang2S. Choi3Yonsei University Wonju College of Medicine, Psychiatry, Wonju, Republic of Korea Duksung Women’s University, Clinical Psychology, Soul, Republic of KoreaYonsei University Wonju College of Medicine, Psychiatry, Wonju, Republic of KoreaYonsei University Wonju College of Medicine, Artificial Intelligence Bigdata Medical Center, Wonju, Republic of KoreaDuksung Women’s University, Clinical Psychology, Soul, Republic of Korea Introduction Bipolar Disorder (BD) is a disorder in which cognitive function is relatively preserved but social functioning is markedly impaired. Interestingly, studies on BD show that the patients have a strong desire for social rewards. Hypersensitivity to social rewards in BD has not yet been sufficiently examined through experimental methods, although recent studies have pointed out that their reward hypersensitivity is the cause of symptoms and dysfunction. Objectives The purpose of this study was to investigate whether patients with BD are hypersensitive to social rewards using the social value capture task. Methods Groups of 25 BD and healthy control (HC) each completed the social value attention capture task. This task consists of a practice phase in which associative learning of social rewards with specific stimuli occurs, and a test phase in which the stimuli associated with rewards appear as distractors during the participants performing a selective attention task. We also recorded event-related potential (ERP) in the practice phase in order to investigate BDs’ cortical activity for social reward. Results showed significantly decreased accuracy rate and increased reaction time in the high social reward-associated distractor trials of the test phase in the BD compared to the HC. As a result of analysis in ERP components, P3 amplitude for social reward was significantly greater in the BD than the HC. Conclusions BD patients exhibit behavioral and physiological hypersensitivity to social rewards that might contribute to social dysfunction. Disclosure No significant relationships. https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S0924933822004254/type/journal_articlereward hypersensitivitysocial rewardbipolar disorder |
| spellingShingle | Y. Kwan J. Lee S. Hwang S. Choi Social Hypersensitivity in Bipolar Disorder: An ERP Study European Psychiatry reward hypersensitivity social reward bipolar disorder |
| title | Social Hypersensitivity in Bipolar Disorder: An ERP Study |
| title_full | Social Hypersensitivity in Bipolar Disorder: An ERP Study |
| title_fullStr | Social Hypersensitivity in Bipolar Disorder: An ERP Study |
| title_full_unstemmed | Social Hypersensitivity in Bipolar Disorder: An ERP Study |
| title_short | Social Hypersensitivity in Bipolar Disorder: An ERP Study |
| title_sort | social hypersensitivity in bipolar disorder an erp study |
| topic | reward hypersensitivity social reward bipolar disorder |
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