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Bipolar Disorder as Maladaptive Arousal
Author(s) -
MacKin Dean F.
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
annals of the new york academy of sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.712
H-Index - 248
eISSN - 1749-6632
pISSN - 0077-8923
DOI - 10.1196/annals.1417.000
Subject(s) - bipolar disorder , endophenotype , arousal , psychology , mania , neuroscience , clinical psychology , cognition
Bipolar disorder can be understood as a disorder of behavioral regulation. Manic and depressed individuals are impaired in the titration of appetitive arousal, possibly at the level of neuronal plasticity. An experiment in which fixed 5% CO 2 stimulates respiration and blocks satiety tests the regulation of appetitive arousal. In preliminary analysis of data from 35 individuals (24 with bipolar disorder) individuals with bipolar disorder were more likely to fail to find a stable state of respiratory adjustment to CO 2 . If confirmed, the unstable respiratory response to CO 2 may prove useful as a bipolar‐disorder endophenotype.