Facial processing in bipolar disorder is mediated by clinical and biological aspects
AUTOR(ES)
Shoshina, Irina I.; Oliveira, Milena E.; Silva, Gabriella M.; Negreiros, Nathalia S.; Felisberti, Fatima M.; Fernandes, Thiago P.; Santos, Natanael A.
FONTE
Brazilian Journal of Psychiatry
DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO
2022
RESUMO
Objective: The process of detecting faces can be considered one of the initial steps in face recognition, which is essential for human interaction. We sought to investigate whether a face perception task reliably detects subtle perceptual disturbances between patients with bipolar disorder (BD) and healthy controls. Methods: In this multisite study, we examined differences between BD patients and matched healthy controls. Participants were instructed to detect the orientation (either left or right) of a face when it was presented as a face/non-face pair on a computer screen using Bayesian entropy estimation. Data analyses compared performance between the groups. Results: Overall, BD patients exhibited more perceptual disturbances compared with controls. BD patients who took olanzapine had better performance and faster reaction times (RTs) than patients who took lithium or were medication-naive. BD patients who took lithium had better performance and faster RTs than medication-naive patients. The medication-naive BD group exhibited greater disturbances than all other groups. Conclusion: These findings highlight the reliability of the face perception task used herein and may be important for public health initiatives and follow-up studies that seek to understand the diverse effects of other variables that can affect sensory processing in this population.
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