Bipolar remitted patients show emotion-related bias in memories of lifelike events: A study based on the virtual reality paradigm.

• Autor(a) principal: Bobrowicz-Campos, E.
• Data de Publicação: 2016
• Outros Autores: Pinho, S., Matos, A. P.
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10316/47366; https://doi.org/10.5944/rppc.vol.21.num.3.2016.15990
• topic: Trastorno bipolar; Memoria autobiográfica; Memoria emocional; Realidad virtual; Evaluación neuropsicológica

This study aimed to examine whether patients with bipolar disorder (BD) perceive differences in the encoding and retrieving of autobiographical information related to events with different emotional valence. For this purpose, an experimental task based on the virtual reality paradigm was administrated to 14 euthymic BD patients and 23 healthy controls. All participants also had a neuropsychological assessment and completed self­report questionnaires as to mood and psychopathological symptoms. BD patients, when compared to adult controls, recognized more information associated with negative lifelike events and retrieved less information related to positive events. We suggest that changes in processing negative information are caused by the activation of maladaptive emotion­regulation processes, and changes in processing positive information arise from insufficient elaboration of memory traces or from suppression/distortion processes acting during retrieval.