Associations of age with reward delay discounting and response inhibition in adolescents with bipolar disorders.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Bipolar disorders' (BD) onset before age 18 is a potential marker for a more severe illness course. Adolescence is also a period of significant normative maturation of inhibitory control and reward-relevant decision-making processes, such as decreased delay discounting (i.e., decreased preference for smaller, immediate versus larger, delayed rewards). Adults with BD exhibit elevated delay discounting rates. Very little is known about developmental changes in delay discounting in adolescents with BD, or about associations between inhibitory control and delay discounting in BD. The present study addresses these questions.

Methods

The sample included 78 participants, ages 13 to 23, with BD or without history of mental illness. Group differences and group by age inter

SUBMITTER: Urosevic S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4684973 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature