Neuropsychological deficits
and emotion dysregulation are present in
symptomatic and euthymic patients with
bipolar disorder. However, there is little
evidence on how cognitive functioning is
influenced by emotion, what the neural
correlates of emotional distraction effects
are, and whether such deficits are a consequence
or a precursor of the disorder. The
authors used functional MRI (fMRI) to
investigate these questions.