Neural correlates of social affect and social cognition as risk markers of bipolar disorder.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The identification of early warning signs is of great importance for identifying individuals at risk for mental disorders. Especially in the case of bipolar disorder, these research endeavours are imperative considering that the frequently delayed diagnoses and longer illness duration are associated with symptom exacerbation and lower recovery rates.

Aims

To multimodally investigate associations between hypomanic personality traits and altered social affect and social cognition to probe their role as early warning signs of bipolar disorder.

Method

In a community sample (n = 140; 50.71% female), we investigated associations between hypomanic personality traits and both behavioural and neural activity measures of empathy and theory of mind (ToM) based

SUBMITTER: Choi D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12823450 | biostudies-literature | 2026 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature