Bipolar Disorder

New bipolar disorder study findings reported from Technion

Published in Mental Health Business Week, January 17th, 2009

"A formal modeling approach was used to characterize decision-making processes in bipolar disorder. Decision making was examined in 28 bipolar patients (14 acute and 14 remitted) and 25 controls using the Iowa Gambling Task (Bechara et al., 1994), a decision-making task used for assessing cognitive impulsivity," scientists in Haifa, Israel report.

"To disentangle motivational and cognitive aspects of decision-making processes, we applied a formal cognitive model to the performance on the Iowa Gambling Task. The model has three parameters: The relative impact of rewards and punishments on evaluations, the impact of recent and past payoffs, and the degree of choice...

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Source: Mental Health Business Week (2009-01-17)

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