BackgroundSchizophrenia (SZ) and bipolar disorder (BD) may overlap in etiology and
phenomenology but differ with regard to emotional processing. We used facial affect as a …

Objectives: To determine the neural responses invoked in Theory of Mind (ToM) in euthymic
bipolar patients as compared with healthy subjects. Methods: This study examined 20 …

Objective: Increased amygdala reactivity during processing of certain types of emotional
stimuli (eg, fear, anger) has been observed in patients with anxiety disorders such as social …

Objectives: The present study in hypomanic and manic patients explored how amygdala
responses to affective stimuli depend on the valence of the stimuli presented. Methods: We …

BACKGROUND: Previous studies have shown that patients with schizophrenia show
abnormalities in brain activation when processing emotional faces. However, very few …

In the present study, we examined whether there is an impairment in affect matching abilities
in remitted patients with bipolar disorder and if this could be attributed to problems with facial …

BackgroundBipolar disorder type I (BD-I) is associated with emotion dysregulation.
However, experimentally controlled studies of emotion regulation (ER), particularly those …

Patients with bipolar disorder (BD) have difficulty in recognizing and discriminating facial
emotions. However, beyond this broad finding, existing literature is equivocal about the …

Some authors consider contempt to be a basic emotion while others consider it a variant of
disgust. The neural correlates of contempt have not so far been specifically contrasted with …

BACKGROUND: Accurate recognition of facial expressions is crucial for social functioning.
In depressed individuals, implicit and explicit attentional biases away from happy and …