Emotions and Cognitions in Bipolar Disorder
-
Michel Bourin [1]
-
[1] University of Nantes
-
- Localización: Psychiatry and Neuroscience Update: From Epistemology to Clinical Psychiatry – Vol. IV / Pascual Ángel Gargiulo (ed. lit.), Humberto Luis Mesones Arroyo (ed. lit.), 2021, ISBN 978-3-030-61721-9, págs. 589-597
- Idioma: inglés
- Texto completo no disponible (Saber más ...)
-
Resumen
The regulation of cognitive activities and the control of the emotional experience are determining parameters of the adaptation of an individual to his environment. Organic or functional disturbances of these processes are likely to induce pathologies clinically characterized by behavioral disorders, especially in the field of social interactions, and an alteration of the level of functioning. Given the limitations of the diagnostic criteria defined by the nosographic classifications, new readings from the clinic are needed to understand the complexity and heterogeneity of mental illnesses. Particularly relevant, the dimensional approach of symptomatology consists of a description of clinical or psychopathological dimensions, such as cognitive and emotional disorders. Bipolar disorder is a condition in which disturbances of cognitive functioning and emotional processing are particularly marked during acute episodes and persist during the euthymic period. The exploration of emotional processes suggests the involvement of emotional hyperreactivity and emotional identification disorder in the development of symptoms. Emotional disturbances may influence cognitive functioning; these pathological interactions would be underpinned by cortico-subcortical functional abnormalities. Improving cognitive and emotional processes is now an objective of therapeutic management. Functional abnormalities of cortico-subcortical neural networks could be at the origin.
