Mood shifts heighten pleasure responses in people with bipolar disorder: Study
NEW DELHI, June 15 (PTI): Mood changes, even momentary ones, could profoundly heighten the brain’s response to pleasure in people having bipolar disorder, according to a research.
People having this mental condition, marked by extreme shifts in moods and energy levels, are more prone to this ‘mood bias’ – the term researchers used for when one’s good mood tends to make them view everything more favourably and hence “gain momentum” in mood.
“Imagine going to a new restaurant for the first time. If you happen to be in a fantastic mood, you’re likely to perceive the experience as being even better than it actually is,” said Liam Mason, University College London’s Psychology and Language Sciences, co-lead author of the study published in the journal Biological Psychiatry Global Open Science.
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