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Emotion Regulation Strategies Can Predict Task-Switching Abilities in Euthymic Bipolar Patients

This study examined task-switching abilities and emotion regulation strategies in euthymic bipolar patients (EBP). Forty EBP and 40 healthy individuals performed face categorization tasks where they switched between emotion and non-emotion (i.e., gender) features among faces and completed emotion re...

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Autores principales: Gul, Amara, Khan, Kamran
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4209808/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25386129
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2014.00847
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description This study examined task-switching abilities and emotion regulation strategies in euthymic bipolar patients (EBP). Forty EBP and 40 healthy individuals performed face categorization tasks where they switched between emotion and non-emotion (i.e., gender) features among faces and completed emotion regulation questionnaire (Gross and John, 2003). Subject groups showed substantial differences in task-switching abilities and emotion regulation strategies: (1) there was a dissociation between emotion and gender classification in EBP. The switch cost was larger [i.e., higher reaction times (RTs) on switch as compared to no-switch trials] for gender categorization as compared to the emotion categorization task. In contrast, such asymmetries were absent among healthy participants. The differential pattern of task switching reflected functional disturbances in frontotemporal neural system and an attentional bias to emotion features of the faces in EBP. This suggests that when a euthymic bipolar patient is preoccupied with emotion recognition, an instruction to perform gender categorization results in greater cost on RTs. (2) In contrast to healthy individuals, EBP reported more frequent use of emotion suppression and lesser use of cognitive reappraisal as emotion regulation strategy. (3) Emotion regulation was found to be a significant predictor of task-switching abilities. It is argued that task switching deficits rely on maladaptive emotion regulation strategies in EBP specifically when tasks of emotional significance are involved.
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spelling pubmed-42098082014-11-10 Emotion Regulation Strategies Can Predict Task-Switching Abilities in Euthymic Bipolar Patients Gul, Amara Khan, Kamran Front Hum Neurosci Neuroscience This study examined task-switching abilities and emotion regulation strategies in euthymic bipolar patients (EBP). Forty EBP and 40 healthy individuals performed face categorization tasks where they switched between emotion and non-emotion (i.e., gender) features among faces and completed emotion regulation questionnaire (Gross and John, 2003). Subject groups showed substantial differences in task-switching abilities and emotion regulation strategies: (1) there was a dissociation between emotion and gender classification in EBP. The switch cost was larger [i.e., higher reaction times (RTs) on switch as compared to no-switch trials] for gender categorization as compared to the emotion categorization task. In contrast, such asymmetries were absent among healthy participants. The differential pattern of task switching reflected functional disturbances in frontotemporal neural system and an attentional bias to emotion features of the faces in EBP. This suggests that when a euthymic bipolar patient is preoccupied with emotion recognition, an instruction to perform gender categorization results in greater cost on RTs. (2) In contrast to healthy individuals, EBP reported more frequent use of emotion suppression and lesser use of cognitive reappraisal as emotion regulation strategy. (3) Emotion regulation was found to be a significant predictor of task-switching abilities. It is argued that task switching deficits rely on maladaptive emotion regulation strategies in EBP specifically when tasks of emotional significance are involved. Frontiers Media S.A. 2014-10-27 /pmc/articles/PMC4209808/ /pubmed/25386129 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2014.00847 Text en Copyright © 2014 Gul and Khan. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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title Emotion Regulation Strategies Can Predict Task-Switching Abilities in Euthymic Bipolar Patients
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title_fullStr Emotion Regulation Strategies Can Predict Task-Switching Abilities in Euthymic Bipolar Patients
title_full_unstemmed Emotion Regulation Strategies Can Predict Task-Switching Abilities in Euthymic Bipolar Patients
title_short Emotion Regulation Strategies Can Predict Task-Switching Abilities in Euthymic Bipolar Patients
title_sort emotion regulation strategies can predict task-switching abilities in euthymic bipolar patients
topic Neuroscience
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4209808/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25386129
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2014.00847
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