Publications by authors named "Adolfo Benito"
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- The study aimed to examine how well outpatients with bipolar disorder (BD) recognize, identify, and discriminate facial emotions compared to matched controls.
- Participants included 44 individuals with BD and 48 control subjects who were tested using various emotion-related assessments, while accounting for mild mood symptoms.
- Results indicated that those with BD had significantly lower scores in all emotion recognition tasks and theory of mind measures, suggesting ongoing difficulties with emotional processing even when symptoms are mild or in remission.
A deficit of social cognition in bipolar disorder has been shown, even when patients are stable. This study compares the attribution of intentions (social-cognitive bias) in a group of 37 outpatients with bipolar disorder with 32 matched control subjects. Bipolar patients scored significantly higher in the Ambiguous Intentions Hostility Questionnaire, showing an angry and intentionality bias (P = .
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIt has been hypothesized that a Theory of Mind (ToM) deficit could be a vulnerability marker for psychosis. Recent studies, however, have shown ToM deficits in affective relapses of bipolar disorder as well as in the euthymic phase. This study analyzes the relationship between ToM and a previous history of psychotic symptoms in bipolar disorder.
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