Mood state dependency of dysfunctional attitudes in bipolar affective disorder.

Introduction: Studies of cognitive styles among euthymic people with bipolar affective disorder (BAD) without use of mood induction techniques to access those cognitive styles give misleading impressions of normality of those cognitions. The aim of this study was to assess dysfunctional attitudes of participants with BAD, and control participants with no previous psychiatric histories, after mood inductions.

Methods: Sad and happy moods were induced within 49 BAD and 37 controls.