Emotion processing and psychosocial functioning in euthymic bipolar disorder

Abstract

Euthymic bipolar patients exhibit deficits in emotion processing. Emotion processing is associated with social functioning in these patients.

Social cognition in bipolar disorder: the role of sociodemographic, clinical, and neurocognitive variables in emotional intelligence

“…In contrast, our results would reinforce the findings by Aparicio et al. whereby patients with BD exhibited lower MSCEIT scores compared with a HC group. Some of our findings are consistent with previous studies, but some methodological differences should be mentioned.…”

“…On the one hand, our results could be in line with those studies that have examined the SC using Managing Emotions Branch in patients with BD and no difference between patients and HC was found . On the other hand, our work is similar to three other recently published studies which examined SC focusing on EI assessed by the MSCEIT in BD samples using the four branches, and mixed results have been obtained .…”

“…The associations between different abilities comprising EI and ‘cold cognition’ in BD have not yet been sufficiently investigated. Previous studies reported that lower levels of EI were associated with poor neurocognitive outcome in BD and even worse psychosocial functioning in BD . In this line, it has been found that facial emotion recognition impairment is present in patients with BD with neurocognitive impairment .…”

“… and Aparicio et al. only included patients with BD type I. We additionally investigated the potential sociodemographic, clinical, and neurocognitive factors which could explain differences in EI among BD and HC.…”

“…On the other hand, there is also evidence indicating that patients with BD might have preserved SC or might have some impairment in only a few SC domains such as Theory of Mind and Emotional Processing, which raises the issue about these domains being candidate endophenotypes of the illness . Nonetheless, available literature on EI is scarce in BD . Better comprehension of possible deficits in SC, including EI during euthymia, has become critical to ascertaining whether these deficits can be considered as chronic and could represent a trait marker of the illness.…”