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ReviewInternational journal of bipolar disorders2021

Deficits in explicit emotion regulation in bipolar disorder: a systematic review.

Marcel Kurtz, Pia Mohring, Katharina Förster, Michael Bauer, Philipp Kanske

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Review in International journal of bipolar disorders, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

23 citing papers in PubMed, 43 citations in OpenAlex.

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  14. Review of Emotion Regulation in Late Life Mood Disorders.Journal of psychiatry and brain science · 2024
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Marcel KurtzClinical Psychology and Behavioral Neuroscience, Faculty of Psychology, Technische Universität Dresden, Chemnitzer Str. 46, 01187, Dresden, Germany. marcel.kurtz@tu-dresden.de.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2244-6025
Pia MohringClinical Psychology and Behavioral Neuroscience, Faculty of Psychology, Technische Universität Dresden, Chemnitzer Str. 46, 01187, Dresden, Germany.
Katharina FörsterClinical Psychology and Behavioral Neuroscience, Faculty of Psychology, Technische Universität Dresden, Chemnitzer Str. 46, 01187, Dresden, Germany.
Michael BauerDepartment of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Medical Faculty, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany.
Philipp KanskeClinical Psychology and Behavioral Neuroscience, Faculty of Psychology, Technische Universität Dresden, Chemnitzer Str. 46, 01187, Dresden, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2027-8782
Technische Universität Dresden · DEMax Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences · DEUniversity Hospital Carl Gustav Carus · DE

Funding

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft KA 4412/2-1, KA 4412/4-1, KA 4412/5-1, SFB940/3 C07
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundThis study aimed to compile and synthesize studies investigating explicit emotion regulation in patients with bipolar disorder and individuals at risk of developing bipolar disorder. The importance of explicit emotion regulation arises from its potential role as a marker for bipolar disorders in individuals at risk and its potent role in therapy for bipolar disorder patients.

methodsTo obtain an exhaustive compilation of studies dealing specifically with explicit emotion regulation in bipolar disorder, we conducted a systematic literature search in four databases. In the 15 studies we included in our review, the emotion-regulation strategies maintenance, distraction, and reappraisal (self-focused and situation-focused) were investigated partly on a purely behavioral level and partly in conjunction with neural measures. The samples used in the identified studies included individuals at increased risk of bipolar disorder, patients with current affective episodes, and patients with euthymic mood state.

resultsIn summary, the reviewed studies' results indicate impairments in explicit emotion regulation in individuals at risk for bipolar disorder, patients with manic and depressive episodes, and euthymic patients. These deficits manifest in subjective behavioral measures as well as in neural aberrations. Further, our review reveals a discrepancy between behavioral and neural findings regarding explicit emotion regulation in individuals at risk for bipolar disorders and euthymic patients. While these groups often do not differ significantly in behavioral measures from healthy and low-risk individuals, neural differences are mainly found in frontostriatal networks.

conclusionWe conclude that these neural aberrations are a potentially sensitive measure of the probability of occurrence and recurrence of symptoms of bipolar disorders and that strengthening this frontostriatal route is a potentially protective measure for individuals at risk and patients who have bipolar disorders.

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Bipolar disorderExplicit emotion regulationFrontostriatal networkReappraisalSystematic review

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PMID33937951
PMCPMC8089068
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